On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <kmest...@cisco.com> wrote: > On Dec 2, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 05:42:58PM +0000, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote: >>> My only curiosity here was what would the advantages of implementing >>> VEPA in OVS be over using the existing lldpad approach. I'd also be >>> interested to hear what Ben has to say here. Since VEPA is already >>> mostly implemented in something outside of OVS, then perhaps hooking >>> up with that work would be a good approach. >> >> Isn't VEPA a pretty simple protocol? I'd think that it could be >> implemented using OpenFlow. > > For the most part, I think that's likely true. My only point was that > it's already implemented in lldpad. So perhaps finding a novel way > to make sure of lldpad with OVS would solve the issue without > writing any code.
This isn't the first time this has come up (people have mentioned it for both vanilla LLDP and DCBX and also the FCoE daemon) so I think it's worth thinking about. It would be nice if there was tighter integration than what is currently done with ebtables on the bridge though. I don't know if there is a nice generic way to do that or if we should just do something with lldpad since that's the majority of the use cases. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
