On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Liran Schour <lir...@il.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote on 11/03/2013 06:31:12 PM:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Liran Schour <lir...@il.ibm.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I wanted to know what is the current status of flow  based tunneling,
> is it
>> > available on 1.9.0 release?
>> > Is there any documentation about how to use this feature? Any
> suggestions
>> > about how to setup flow based tunneling scenario?
>>
>> Flow based tunneling is purely an internal architectural change and
>> not a user visible feature, so there is no documentation.
>>
>
> Flow based tunneling means that tunnels will be created according to flows
> that will include
> the source and destination IPs of the tunnel and by that will specify the
> endpoints of the tunnel.
> As I understand from your answer this is not what happen in Openvswitch
> today.
> Can you explain then what do you mean when you say flow based tunneling
> support in Openvswitch today?

It's used internally for userspace/kernel communication.

> Are there any plans to export flow based tunneling to the user (allow the
> user to specify tunnels via flows)?

Not at this time.
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