Hi Tom, Thank you very much for the clarification. I am looking forward to your patch. Meanwhile I will take a look at the code of OVS and see if I can patch it myself.
Regards Dimitar On 07/01/15 16:50, Thomas F Herbert wrote: > Dimitar, > > 802.1ad will separate client traffic from each other and from provider > traffic. Each level of VLAN tag will is 12 bits. So you could have > 4096 provider VLANS and then within each of those provider VLANS you > could have 4094 "customer" or in your case client VLANs. > > You can try our patch for 802.1ad but you will have to build OVS from > source. > > As is the case with 802.1ad, openflow spec supports 802.1ah (PBB) but > OVS doesn't support it as yet. > > There have been several contributions toward this goal. We at > EntryPoint hope to work on this as well after 802.1ad. > > --Tom > > On 1/6/15 3:01 PM, Dimitar Ianakiev wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Thanks for the reply. I will look at 802.1ah. Currently our architecture >> does not involve physical hardware as we do not have control over it. We >> were planning on using the provided private network from the data centre >> and separating the traffic of our clients inside this vlan. We just need >> to host more than 4094 vlans in such network. Does the openvswitch >> support 802.1ah? >> >> Regards >> Dimitar >> >> On 06/01/15 02:30, Thomas F Herbert wrote: >>> Dimitar, >>> >>> Open vSwitch does not currently support 802.1ad. I have submitted a >>> patch for 802.1ad and I am in the process of submitting a new version. >>> However, 802.1ad will not solve the namespace problem. Perhaps you are >>> thinking of 802.1ah? >>> >>> --Tom >>> >>> On 1/5/15 3:51 PM, Dimitar Ianakiev wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> We are using openvswitch for some time and we are trying to implement >>>> "private vlans" for our customers. Each customer should have vlan(s) >>>> between his/her virtual instances. The problem with 802.1q vlans is >>>> that >>>> we are expecting more than 4094 clients per openvswitch instance >>>> and the >>>> vlan limit is 4096. We are considering QinQ(802.1ad). >>>> >>>> My question is if ovs supports QinQ and how this can be achieved ? >>>> Please propose other approach if this is not a good solution to the >>>> problem. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Dimitar Ianakiev >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
