> On Apr 8, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Scott Lowe <scott.l...@scottlowe.org> wrote: > > Please see my responses inline, prefixed by [SL]. > > >> On Apr 8, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Eugene L. Vorokov <v...@pidarasy.org> wrote: >> >> Hi Scott, >> >> Thank you for your reply. >> According to my understanding of how STP works (please correct me if >> I'm wrong), it will just take down one of the links to break the >> circle. This way things will work, but that wouldn't be a working full >> mesh. For instance, STP may take down link between 2 and 3, and then >> packet from 2 to 3 will go through 1, which is exactly what I'm trying >> to avoid. > > > [SL] I have no direct experience running any sizable OVS implementation using > STP, but feedback that I received from another organization using LXC with > OVS, tunnels, and STP indicated that STP recalculated every time a container > was attached or detached from OVS (on any of the hosts), and this resulted in > "pauses" of traffic.
I don't know if it would help, but OVS has supported RSTP since 2.4, so it's possible it could have improved if they just had used plain STP. --Justin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
