On Jan 23, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Kyle Mestery <kmest...@cisco.com> wrote: >> The following two patches provide support for the LISP tunneling protocol >> into >> Open vSwitch. See the latest IETF draft for LISP here: >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lisp-24 >> >> Kyle Mestery (1): >> Add support to the tunneling code for a "pre_tunnel" function. >> This allows the tunneling code to perform operations on the >> packet before the outer IP header is added. >> >> Lorand Jakab (1): >> Add support for LISP tunneling > > Hi Kyle, > > I'm curious if you can share your long term plan for LISP. In > particular there are three areas that I was wondering about:
We're working on the long-term plan now, I'll send out the plan tomorrow. > * L3 support. Obviously OVS is very Ethernet centric at this point, > resulting in the need to play games with MAC addresses. For L3 support, we had discussed this previously on the mailer, but never came to a conclusion. I think this is a big challenge to tackle, but would provide benefits to OVS, and certainly would benefit LISP. We'll work on this infrastructure and propose something around this. > * Additional LISP data plane support. LISP encodes more control > information in the protocol itself compared to the existing OVS tunnel > implementations, which basically only have the tunnel ID. It looks > like this implementation generates nonces on transmit but otherwise > doesn't try to handle the other pieces. I think this can be addressed with future patches. For now, we've simply enabled a very basic version of LISP. > * LISP control plane components. > This is the most interesting aspect, and is something we'll have more to say about soon. > What do you guys see as the ideal end result? Well, ultimately having OVS be able to participate in a LISP network would be the ideal end result. I think this is just a first step to getting us there. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
