On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Pritesh Kothari
> <pritesh.koth...@cisco.com> wrote:
>> This patch adds support for Network Service Headers (nsh) over VXLAN
>> as mentioned in [1]. Here changes are made to datapath to add nsh
>> headers whenever a vxlan port with destination port as 6633 (which is
>> IANA allocated port for nsh over vxlan) is created.
>> 
>> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-quinn-sfc-nsh-02
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Pritesh Kothari <pritesh.koth...@cisco.com>
> 
> I think we need to find a way to layer this better with respect to
> VXLAN. It seems likely to be too complicated to have the code mixed
> together since even the NSH portion will need to expand assuming the
> rest of the fields will be supported one day.
> 
> Can't we just structure this as push/pop actions and then create a
> VXLAN port on with a different UDP port? It would also seem to help
> with potentially running this over different protocols.

Sure will try this, will send in v3 with these changes.

Regards,
Pritesh

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