Okay, I can do that. Will dig a little bit deeper into Linux bridges and their current capabilities as well as OVS.
Thx for your feedback! > On August 28, 2019 10:32 AM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lampre...@proxmox.com> wrote: > > > On 28.08.19 10:10, Aaron Lauterer wrote: > > > > > > On 8/28/19 9:42 AM, Thomas Lamprecht wrote: > >> On 27.08.19 16:31, Aaron Lauterer wrote: > >>> On 8/27/19 12:27 PM, Christian Ebner wrote: > >>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.eb...@proxmox.com> > >>> > >>>> +In contrast to Linux virtual bridges, OVS bridges can carry multiple > >>>> VLANs over > >>>> +a sinlge bridge. > >>> > >>> # this is not true. by now Linux bridges can be set to VLAN aware and > >>> thus reduce the use cases for the OVS quite a bit. > >> > >> With vlan-aware on you cannot do any VXLANs anymore, AFAIK, which OVS > >> still can. > >> But yes, in general that comment is not the full truth so maybe just omit > >> it > >> for now.. > >> > > > > What if we put a subsection "Open vSwitch vs. Linux bridges" / "Comparison > > to Linux bridges" at the beginning of the OVS section? > > > > I think one or two paragraphs there could help people a lot to decide if > > they even need OVS. Talking about the features and use cases. In which > > situations the Linux Bridge is not enough anymore and OVS is needed. > > Sounds good to me. Would then need to be updated from time to time, though, as > Linux Bridges have seen quite some improvements over time I'd guess there's > more > to come in future kernel releases. _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
