On Dec 7, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Kyle Mestery <kmest...@cisco.com> wrote: >> Some tunneling protocols require manipulation of the packet before the outer >> IP header is placed on the packet. An example of a tunneling protocol with >> this attribute is LISP. For these protocols, a way to manipulate the packet >> (for example, remove the MAC header) is provided. > > How does this work on the receiving side when you get a packet with > the MAC header removed? I understand that it makes sense in the > context of a router but currently OVS expects full Ethernet frames.
Well, one thought I had was we could add the MAC header back in the vport driver's receive function. Since the flow is extracted from the packet here, the existing flow extraction and matching code would work ok front his point on. What do you think? Thanks, Kyle _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
