The plan is to support both models. --Justin
On Sep 7, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Holger Winkelmann wrote: > Sounds good to me too. To clarify, you 'just' Plan to support the > encapsulation format and control will be still the OF controller ? > > -- > > Holger Winkelmann > Travelping GmbH > +49-171-5594745 > > On 08.09.2011, at 07:36, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Right, I agree. I was just referring to the ability to use its UDP >> tunneling format to get through devices that don't like GRE. We're also >> planning to support a mode where VXLAN is a virtual port, like GRE, and >> traffic that is sent out it will be encapsulated (and decapsulated on >> receive). >> >> --Justin >> >> >> On Sep 7, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Nicky Fatr wrote: >> >>> Yes, VXLAN tunnel header is a good proposal, but for control plane >>> there is serve limitation: it depend on physical network multicast for >>> MAC learning. In OVS, central ovsdb controlled MAC address propagation >>> is a better choice. >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Nicky Fatr wrote: >>>> >>>>> I don't think that TRILL/802.1AQ L2 over L2 is a good option for large >>>>> scale deployment. L2 over L3 instead is more scalable, eliminating >>>>> comlexity of physical network. >>>>> >>>>> maybe we can expect L2 over UDP in some future release, for UDP is >>>>> more friendly than GRE in some networking configuration. >>>> >>>> You can already do L2-over-L3 with CAPWAP. It doesn't support a >>>> configurable context identifier (key), but a patch has been provided by >>>> Valient Gough and Simon Horman that adds it. We're also looking at >>>> supporting VXLAN, which was recently announced: >>>> >>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-00 >>>> >>>> --Justin >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
