On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Stephen Hemminger <shemmin...@vyatta.com> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:19:24 -0500 > Kyle Mestery <kmest...@cisco.com> wrote: > >> Note: v4 of this patch removes VXLAN over IPSEC support, >> per an offline conversation with Jesse. >> >> Add support for VXLAN tunnels to Open vSwitch. Add support >> for setting the destination UDP port on a per-port basis. >> This is done by adding a "dst_port" parameter to the port >> configuration. This is only applicable currently to VXLAN >> tunnels. >> >> Please note this currently does not implement any sort of multicast >> learning. With this patch, VXLAN tunnels must be configured similar >> to GRE tunnels (e.g. point to point). A subsequent patch will implement >> a VXLAN control plane in userspace to handle multicast learning. >> >> This patch set is based on one posted by Ben Pfaff on Oct. 12, 2011 >> to the ovs-dev mailing list: >> >> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2011-October/012051.html >> >> The patch has been maintained, updated, and freshened by me and a >> version of it is available at the following github repository: >> >> https://github.com/mestery/ovs-vxlan/tree/vxlan >> >> I've tested this patch with multiple VXLAN tunnels between hosts >> using different UDP port numbers. Performance is on par (though >> slightly faster) than comparable GRE tunnels. >> >> See the following IETF draft for additional information about VXLAN: >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 >> >> Signed-off-by: Kyle Mestery <kmest...@cisco.com> > > Looks good, glad to see it.
Thanks for the review! > One question, and it might be part of a bigger issue, the code doesn't > seem to be network namespace aware. Is OVS able to handle network namespaces? > The socket needs to be bound the netns of the OVS instance. > OVS is network namespace aware, as the OpenStack Quantum plugin for OVS makes use of this. I'll fix this up in my patch and resubmit with the change. Thanks, Kyle > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
