On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 06:19:55PM +0100, Russell Bryant wrote: > On 02/24/2015 05:47 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 05:46:04PM +0100, Russell Bryant wrote: > >> On 02/24/2015 05:43 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 05:37:53PM +0100, Russell Bryant wrote: > >>>> On 02/20/2015 07:19 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >>>>> This commit adds preliminary design documentation for Open Virtual > >>>>> Network, > >>>>> or OVN, a new OVS-based project to add support for virtual networking to > >>>>> OVS, initially with OpenStack integration. > >>>> > >>>> I had another thought about the OpenStack integration. I don't remember > >>>> seeing any mention of DHCP in the design docs. That could mean we have > >>>> to integrate with the existing DHCP agent in OpenStack. It would be > >>>> great if something in OVN could negate the need for it, though. Do you > >>>> have any thoughts about this? > >>> > >>> DHCP is an obvious service to add to OVN eventually, but I guess that > >>> the initial versions won't have it built-in. So, if OpenStack already > >>> has an agent and it's not too much of a hassle to integrate with OVN, it > >>> might be the way to go. > >> > >> That works. I'd love to get to where none of the current agents are > >> needed. It's good to at least agree that it makes sense to add eventually. > > > > Do you have a list of the other agents that you think are eventually > > undesirable? I can add some of this (including DHCP) to the > > ovn-architecture document. > > > > I think the l2, l3, and now DHCP ones are covered. The only other one > is a metadata agent. That one does some OpenStack specific magic, > though. It intercepts an HTTP request, does some OpenStack lookups and > adds HTTP headers needed to uniquely identify the request to the VM it > came from. Then it proxies the request on to the metadata API exposed > by Nova. I'm not sure if it makes sense to do anything with that.
OK, for now I just added a mention of DHCP. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
