On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Padmanabhan Krishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks a lot Ben and Jesse.
>
> Just wanted to clarify, from your statements:
>
> “OVS simply hands the packet over to the kernel IP stack.”
>
> "After encapsulation, OVS turns the packet over to the kernel TCP/IP
> Stack"
>
> Is the above (handling the frame to kernel to do the routing) a special
> functionality of the tunnel bridge/port?
>
> For example, if a VM connected to a regular OVS bridge (br-int) sends a
> frame destined to a 173.x.. subnet (attached to eth2), i assume OVS will
> bridge the frame and not hand it over to the kernel, right?

Yes, this is specific to tunnel ports because outputting to a tunnel
implies the use of the IP stack. There is no implicit routing for
other types of devices.
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