On 03/04/17 11:40, Matthias May wrote:
> When using openvswitch in combination with a hardware switch attached via dsa
> it may be desirable to prevent frames from being looped back to interfaces
> which reside on the same switch and are already processed by the
> switching fabric in hardware.
> This patch series achieves this by introducing a new parameter port_group to
> be used by the normal action.
> When the port_group is not set explicitly, it defaults to the ofp number.
> Ports which are in the same group will not forward a frame between each other.
> 

Any comments?
Is this something someone else can use?
Reasons why it is a bad idea?

BR
Matthias

_______________________________________________
dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev

Reply via email to