Re: [ovs-dev] Questions about a specific use-case of OVS

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Browning
Thanks Jesse, I will have a look through the archives to find previous submitted patches for QinQ. As for the layered flow matching, you are right, I have been looking at it from a purely theoretical point of view. Once I progress my trial a bit further I will replay some real traffic traces t

Re: [ovs-dev] Questions about a specific use-case of OVS

2012-03-28 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Chris Browning wrote: > First, the kernel module does not support matching on multiple VLAN tags. I > can ignore this issue for the split horizon layer 2 for the Internet and just > match on mac address to push_vlan actions mappings, but for joining LAN's > where I

[ovs-dev] Questions about a specific use-case of OVS

2012-03-28 Thread Chris Browning
Hi, I am a Network Engineer/C Developer for a small Telco in New Zealand. We are very pro Linux based solutions to problems most telco's would normally throw lots of cash at big brands for. The specific problem that started me looking to openvswitch for is this: We get customers delivered to us