On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Gal Sagie <gal.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am new to OpenVswitch and would like to ask a fundamental question > regarding the flow table. > I looked the code and saw it has a 12-13 tuple matching key (unless i miss > understood) which consist of MAC's src and dst IP's , TCP/UDP ports, TOS, > VLAN... > > What i am wondering is why is it not just L2 MAC's ? (with maybe support for > tunneling) > Are these flow entries used for openvswitch support of "distirubition > accross multipile physical networks" and live migration? > (VM's on the same hypervisor cant have the same MAC's right? )
Open vSwitch (and OpenFlow) is not just an L2 switch. Since it's possible to write policies against the upper layers, OVS needs to be able to match on them. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
