On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:27:01AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:19:01PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > > Any plans to support simple L2 loop preventation protocols like > > Extreme's ESRP in OVS? > > I am not aware of any work on that. >
Ok. > > http://apps.extremenetworks.com/libraries/whitepapers/technology/VRRPvsESRP_WP.asp > > http://www.techopsguys.com/2009/12/02/extremely-simple-redundancy-protocol/ > > The latter article says: "Extreme Proprietary protocol. To me this is > not a big deal as you only run this protocol at the core. Downstream > switches can be any vendor." Open vSwitch doesn't usually run at the > core of a network but at the edge. Also, it might be difficult to > correctly implement a proprietary vendor protocol. > Yep. It doesn't have to be exactly ESRP.. that was the first one I could think of :) -- Pasi _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
