On 8/26/14 12:08 PM, David F. Sire wrote:
Thans for your reply.

It's very helpful.


Note : It does not matter now but what wanted to do is to add a module in the Open vSwitch code simulating ARP proxy for LISP tunnels. I read and understood the code but I wonder if this module must be enable for all vports in datapath or just for LISP vport.

Only for LISP vports, since they give you a layer 3 overlay and don't forward ARP traffic.

-Lori


Please could you give me some guidance. Maybe I will do it later so I won't use mininet scripts to automatically install flow rules

Thanks a lot,

David



2014-08-25 12:34 GMT+02:00 Lori Jakab <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:

    On 8/24/14 5:47 AM, David F. Sire wrote:

        Hi,

        I'm using LISP tunnels in Openvswitch and I read in REAME-lisp
        that if "the VMs have IP addresses in the same subnet but the
        hypervisors are separated by a router" in the network
        topology, we need an ARP proxy.


Can you give us more detail about what you are trying to do? Unless you really really want to work on an ARP proxy internal to
    OVS, there may be other solutions.

    For example, you could use /32 (v4) or /128 (v6) addresses in your
    VMs to avoid having two communicating hosts being in the same
    subnet and sending ARP requests if the first place.

    Alternatively, if you use an external controller, or you have a
    static environment, you can implement an “ARP responder” with flow
    rules only, as is done by OpenStack:

    
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ovs-flow-logic#OVS_flows_logic_with_local_ARP_responder

    You can find detailed examples in the following blog post, look
    for Table 105 - ARP responder:

    http://dtucker.co.uk/hack/building-a-router-with-openvswitch.html

    Let us know if this helps with your use case, or please describe
    what you’re trying to achieve.

    HTH,
    -Lori



        What i want to do is to add this proxy in the code.

        I have no idea how to do it.

        Any help will be appreciated.

        Thanks,
        David



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