> On Apr 8, 2016, at 8:33 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.
Your understanding is correct. To get what you want, you need to have something actively programming flows. If you have a simple topology, it wouldn't be hard to just add appropriate flows using "ovs-ofctl". If you want to do something more complex, you could look at a central controller-based network virtualization solution. There are a few of them out there. One option is OVN, which started shipping with OVS 2.5. It's still a work in progress, but it has supported basic L2 connectivity over tunnels for about year now. --Justin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
