Re: [ovs-dev] OvsIpHelper vs the ARP method

2014-08-21 Thread Samuel Ghinet
Sam From: Nithin Raju [nit...@vmware.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 9:27 PM To: Samuel Ghinet; Ben Pfaff Cc: dev@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OvsIpHelper vs the ARP method hi Samuel, Thanks for resending. I'm CCing Ben if he as more

Re: [ovs-dev] OvsIpHelper vs the ARP method

2014-08-20 Thread Nithin Raju
hi Samuel, Thanks for resending. I'm CCing Ben if he as more points. At a high level, IP helper uses the host Hyper-V's ARP and IP routing stack functionality. At a high level it consists of the following parts: 1. Data structures the maintain the L2 and L3 cache. 2. Functionality to Query the

Re: [ovs-dev] OvsIpHelper vs the ARP method

2014-08-20 Thread Samuel Ghinet
Re-sent. From: Samuel Ghinet Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 8:57 PM To: dev@openvswitch.org Subject: OvsIpHelper vs the ARP method Hello guys, I wanted to ask you about this since a week or so. I have seen that you use the OvsIpHelper to find dest eth for a given

[ovs-dev] OvsIpHelper vs the ARP method

2014-08-08 Thread Samuel Ghinet
Hello guys, I wanted to ask you about this since a week or so. I have seen that you use the OvsIpHelper to find dest eth for a given target ip (to be used for destination hypervisor). I find the OvsIpHelper functionality quite complicated, and with calls to it in quite some places within the pr