On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 12:41:32AM -0400, Lax Clarke wrote: > Suppose we have two OVS switches A and B attached to two NICs respectively. > I have a VM in between that normally bridges traffic between A and B (and > thus bridges traffic ingressing on the NICs). > > Is there a way to set up a bypass mechanism, whereby switches A or B can > quickly determine that the VM is no longer bridging traffic, then cause a > bypass around the VM? > > Maybe some sort of heartbeats sent between the bridges that can detect > missing heartbeats on sub-10 seconds time frames?
This sounds like a use for CFM or BFD. OVS supports both, see ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5). _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
