On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 12:09:21AM -0700, Mickey Spiegel wrote: > This patch set is being sent out early to solicit feedback on the > approach. North/south DNAT and SNAT are working, including some > automated tests. There is another patch required to get east/west NAT > working, but work has not yet commenced: > > 1. Add egress loopback capability, along with associated > flags.egress_loopback. When flags.egress_loopback is set, at the > end of the egress pipeline, instead of the packet being sent out the > outport, the packet is forced back to the beginning of the ingress > pipeline with inport = outport. All other registers are cleared, as > if the packet just arrived on that inport. > This capability is needed in order to implement some of the > east/west NAT flows. > Note: The existing flags.loopback allows a packet to go from the end > of the ingress pipeline to the beginning of the egress pipeline with > outport = inport, which is different.
Guru reminded me that we talked about this briefly at ovscon. I don't remember the conclusion or the suggestion. Is there anything I can do to help advance that discussion (or the patch series)? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
