Hi everyone!

I’d like to ask about route priorities in OVN logical routers.

Suppose that I have border gateway router and it has two routes to the prefix 
10.0.0.0/24, but one of them is primary and other is backup. Can I configure 
such scheme?

The difficulty is that when I add two or more routes to the logical router, the 
will be installed into routing information base as ECMP routes, so router will 
load balance traffic between several next-hops.

The documentation says:
       [--may-exist] [--policy=POLICY] [--ecmp] [--ecmp-symmetric-reply]
       [--bfd[=UUID]] lr-route-add router prefix nexthop [port]
                It is an error if a route with prefix and POLICY already exists,
              unless  --may-exist, --ecmp, or --ecmp-symmetric-reply is speci‐
              fied. If --may-exist is specified but not --ecmp or  --ecmp-sym�‐
              metric-reply,  the  existed  route  will be updated with the new
              nexthop and port. If --ecmp or --ecmp-symmetric-reply is  speci‐
              fied,  a  new  route  will  be  added, regardless of the existed
              route., which is useful when adding  ECMP  routes,  i.e.  routes
              with same POLICY and prefix but different nexthop and port.
So, probably, answer for my question is “no, you can’t”, but, maybe someone 
found workaround to handle it?

I think I can manage bucket’s “weight” value in the Openflow group, which is 
created when OVN logical router has ECMP routes but it is not ideal in our case

We use OVN 24.03

Regards,
Ildar, network engineer
_______________________________________________
discuss mailing list
disc...@openvswitch.org
https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss

Reply via email to