On 11/10/14 at 12:46pm, Pravin B Shelar wrote: > Following patch adds support for userspace tunneling. Tunneling > needs three more component first is routing table which is configured by > caching kernel routes and second is ARP cache which build automatically > by snooping arp. And third is tunnel protocol table which list all > listening protocols which is populated by vswitchd as tunnel ports > are added. GRE and VXLAN protocol support is added in this patch. > > Tunneling works as follows: > On packet receive vswitchd check if this packet is targeted to tunnel > port. If it is then vswitchd inserts tunnel pop action which pops > header and sends packet to tunnel port. > On packet xmit rather than generating Set tunnel action it generate > tunnel push action which has tunnel header data. datapath can use > tunnel-push action data to generate header for each packet and > forward this packet to output port. Since tunnel-push action > contains most of packet header vswitchd needs to lookup routing > table and arp table to build this action. > > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> > Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@noironetworks.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
