Re: [ovs-discuss] performance drop 60% when using vxlan tunnel

2014-11-17 Thread Rukhsana Ansari
Here are two old links that provide perf numbers with OVS GRE/VxLAN tunnels: http://networkheresy.com/2012/06/08/the-overhead-of-software-tunneling/ http://networkstatic.net/configuring-vxlan-and-gre-tunnels-on-openvswitch/ With br MTU= 8900 bytes, the bare-metal OVS-vxlan numbers I see is 5.3 Gb

[ovs-discuss] How an openflow switch identifies Link failure

2014-11-17 Thread Padma Jayasankar
Hi, Whan a link fails, how the switch connected to that link knows it. Will it be notified by any other process. (or) will the switch polls using netdev-get-carrier. In the second case then it won't be done immediately right..it will be checked periodically know..If so then what's the time period