On Apr 1, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) > <kmest...@cisco.com> wrote: >> On Apr 1, 2013, at 6:22 AM, Zang MingJie <zealot0...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi folks: >>> There is already a vxlan implement in openvswitch, but it doesn't >>> follow the rfc spec very well, and some main features are missing (ex, >>> broadcast multicast mapping, endpoint auto discover). And there is a >>> better implement since linux kernel 3.8, it is almost complete in >>> kernel 3.9 >>> >>> The kernel implementation provides more features (like static >>> forward table entry, arp reduce), and is easier to config, is there >>> any working progress on it ? >> >> >> There is work currently going on in Open vSwitch to better integrate with >> the upstream tunneling code. Once this is complete, I suspect that most of >> your concerns above will be taken care of. > > These are all control plane features related to multicast learning so > they won't come automatically with upstreaming, which is just the data > plane. I think you had expressed some interest in working on this a > while back, not sure if you are still thinking about it.
Yes, the control plane portions are on my list of things to work on. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
