On Nov 30, 2013, at 12:46 AM, jerry <jerry.lili...@huawei.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone have a plan to support for VEPA in OVS? > > In my opinion, we can achieve such function using two methods: > 1) Add flow rules on each VM port to lead traffic to physical port. > 2) Add a port type for physical port and do MAC-learning on VM ports. > > The two both method need to fix the problem that how to avoid sending > multicast packets > from physical port to the VM port which is this packets' original source port. > Why would you want to implement VEPA in OVS instead of using something like lldpad [1] which already implements VEPA (or at least portions of it)? I don't think adding VEPA support into OVS makes as much sense as using lldpad.
Thanks, Kyle [1] http://www.open-lldp.org/ > Best regards, > Jerry > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
