Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting multiple bridges in full mesh

2016-04-12 Thread Eugene L. Vorokov
Hi Justin, my planned topology is not very complex, so implementing some set of static rules would be the best solution I guess. I tried playwing with ovs-ofctl a bit. When I program flows directly from a machine to a machine (e.g. using dl_src/dl_dst conditions and switching packet for given src

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting multiple bridges in full mesh

2016-04-08 Thread Justin Pettit
> On Apr 8, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > Thank you for your reply. > According to my understanding of how STP works (please correct me if > I'm wrong), it will just take down one of the links to break the > circle. This way things will work, but that wouldn't be

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting multiple bridges in full mesh

2016-04-08 Thread Eugene L. Vorokov
Hi Scott, Thank you for your reply. According to my understanding of how STP works (please correct me if I'm wrong), it will just take down one of the links to break the circle. This way things will work, but that wouldn't be a working full mesh. For instance, STP may take down link between 2 and

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting multiple bridges in full mesh

2016-04-08 Thread Scott Lowe
Please see my response below. On Apr 8, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: > > >> On Apr 8, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Scott Lowe wrote: >> >> Please see my responses inline, prefixed by [SL]. >> >> >>> On Apr 8, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: >>> >>> Hi Scott, >>> >>> Thank you

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting multiple bridges in full mesh

2016-04-08 Thread Justin Pettit
> On Apr 8, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Scott Lowe wrote: > > Please see my responses inline, prefixed by [SL]. > > >> On Apr 8, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: >> >> Hi Scott, >> >> Thank you for your reply. >> According to my understanding of how STP works (please correct me if >> I'm wr

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting multiple bridges in full mesh

2016-04-08 Thread Scott Lowe
Please see my responses inline, prefixed by [SL]. > On Apr 8, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > Thank you for your reply. > According to my understanding of how STP works (please correct me if > I'm wrong), it will just take down one of the links to break the > circl

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting multiple bridges in full mesh

2016-04-08 Thread Scott Lowe
Please see my response below. > On Apr 7, 2016, at 10:29 AM, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to setup L2 network using OpenVSwitch. There are 3 hosts > with openvswitch running on them, each host is connected to the > internet and has some local network behind it, the goal