On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Ramu Ramamurthy <ramu.ramamur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org> wrote: > > This patch implements one approach to using ovn-controller to implement > > a software l2 gateway between logical and physical networks. > > > > A new logical port type called "gateway" is introduced here. It is very > > close to how localnet ports work, with the following exception: > > > > - A localnet port makes OVN use the physical network as the > > transport between hypervisors instead of tunnels. A gateway port still > > uses tunnels between all hypervisors, and packets only go to/from the > > specified physical network as needed via the chassis the gateway port > > is bound to. > > > > - A gateway port also gets bound to a chassis while a localnet port does > > not. This binding is not done by ovn-controller. It is left as an > > administrative function. In the case of OpenStack, the Neutron plugin > > will do this. > > > > Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org> > > --- > > > > Can there be more than 1 gateway to the same l2 network (say for HA) ? > If gateway port G1 on chassis1 and gateway port G2 on chassis2, > Then, when a VM a chassis3 sends a broadcast, it will tunnel to > chassis1, and chassis2, > and then get sent out of G1 and G2 to the same L2 network, ie, Can > that broadcast packet > get sent in duplicate to the physical network ? If so, would you have > to run xSTP on the > gateway ports ? > You can only have a single gateway port for a given network at this stage. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
