On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:31:30PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > This option allows some control over the output interface for tunnels. ??It > > is similar to the 'link' option for Linux network-device based GRE tunnels. > > I didn't, however, make 'link' part of the tunnel key as with those > > tunnels, which means that two tunnels cannot be distinguished on the basis > > of 'link' alone. ??That would slightly complicate tnl_find_port() and didn't > > seem the effort overall. > > > > I'm not sure that this is really needed at all, to be honest, but it seemed > > like a missing bit of feature parity between ip_gre and OVS tunnels. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> > > I guess I'd prefer to hold off on this until we actually have a use > case for it. I can't think of a particularly good one off the top of > my head and have never heard anyone ask for it. If we did put this in > now and one came up in the future we'd have to worry about changing > behavior if we need something different.
No problem, I'll drop it, then. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
