Hi David, AFAIK the information on the mailing list has been fairly consistent. The answers then to differ depending on what you mean by a basic router. So your confusion is understandable.
If you want to "route" between two points in the network, i.e., inserting all the flow rules on the affected switches at one go, then NOX does okay as long as there is no loop. The problem with loops is not with routing but a broadcast storm will result due to the way broadcast packets are handled. If your basic router need to bridge subnets, then you are asking for a lot more. One important item is of course responding to ARPs appropriately. All of which are not implemented in the default distribution to the best of my knowledge. Hope this information is clear. Regards KK On 19 September 2011 23:38, danderson415 <danderson...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kok-Kiong, > I hope this email is not too abrupt for you. I planed to send the question > to nox-dev@ email list. Before my subscription is approved, I would like to > ask you as you are an expert in this area. > Basically I want to make OVS a basic router. Is routing component in NOX > distribution good enough? After search in the Internet, I get two > conflicting information: someone said routing is working as long as there is > no loop; someone said routing is not working because there is no ARP support > in OVS. Which one is right? What is the easiest way to get a functional OVS > based router so two hosts in different subnets can ping each other? > Thanks a lot! > Best, > David _______________________________________________ nox-dev mailing list nox-dev@noxrepo.org http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev
