Hi I ported the aforementioned patches to 1.4 but haven't gotten much further than that yet. Would be interested in lending a hand soonish. (Bit snowed under atm)
Joseph. On 3 February 2012 15:31, Kyle Mestery <kmest...@cisco.com> wrote: > On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:34 AM, kmestery <kmest...@cisco.com> wrote: >>> I'm curious what the current state of the VXLAN patches for Open vSwitch >>> is. I saw an email from Justin on 1-24-2012 indicating the patches are >>> being reworked at this time. I've gone ahead and forward ported the patches >>> from last fall which Ben posted to the list, I've put them on github here: >>> >>> https://github.com/mestery/ovs-vxlan >>> >>> Before I spend much more time on this, I wanted to see if others are >>> working on these so as not to duplicate effort. Is anyone currently working >>> on these patches? If not, I will proceed to test them out and hope to >>> submit them for inclusion into Open vSwitch. >> >> The reason why the vxlan patches went out and then never included is >> because they're not quite sufficient to implement the full protocol >> including multicast learning. Initially it was hoped that >> implementing the wire format would be a good first step but in reality >> some more infrastructure work needs to be done first so we put it on >> hold while we figured it out. >> >> The goal of the infrastructure work would be to provide information >> about the tunnel header in the flow lookup and then enable the >> destination for outgoing packets to be set more flexibly from >> userspace. It would then be possible to implement the current port >> based mechanism, vxlan learning, and other things all from userspace >> using this mechanism. >> >> Is this something that you'd be interested in taking a shot at? If >> so, I can provide some more details about what I was thinking. > > Yes, I can take a shot at this. Any details on what you are thinking here > would be great, feel free to send to the list or unicast to me. > > Kyle > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Founder | Director | VP Research Orion Virtualisation Solutions | www.orionvm.com.au | Phone: 1300 56 99 52 | Mobile: 0428 754 846 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
