On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 06:42:10PM -0400, Ludovic Beliveau wrote: > This patch sequence provides OVS support for the IETF Auto-Attach SPBM draft > standard. This standard describes a compact method of using IEEE 802.1AB Link > Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) together with a IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path > Bridging (SPB) network to automatically attach network devices to individual > services in a SPB network. The intent here is to allow network applications > and devices using OVS to be able to easily take advantage of features offered > by industry standard SPB networks. Details of the Auto-Attach standard can be > found here. > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-unbehagen-lldp-spb-00 > > We have modified the OVS source code to integrate basic LLDP protocol support > as required to implement Auto-Attach (AA). We modeled our LLDP code changes > after other protocols currently supported by OVS (BFD, CFM, etc.). We have > chosen to base this OVS LLDP work on the open source LLDPD project headed by > Vincent Bernat. Details of the LLDPD project can be found here.
Is the goal to make OVS into an auto-attach client or server or both? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
