On 4/6/21 12:11 PM, Mark Gray wrote: > I had a conversation with Dumitru and this patch came up in the > conversation. He made an interesting suggestion (Dumitru, please correct > me if I get this wrong) that this could be refactored as an external > tool. This cmdline tool could, for example, take a set of IP addresses > and return the wildcard representation. For example, > > # ./ovs-new-tool <set of addresses> > <ip address/prefix> ... <ip address/prefix> > > Then this tool could optionally be used by a CMS. The other advantage of > this is that it could also be used in other places.
Given that OVN is essentially a stack of compilers (NB -> SB -> openflow) I was wondering if it would be reasonable and worth it to go a step forward and implement this feature to "combine IP addresses with wildcard" as a library. This would allow using it at different levels in the stack, e.g.: - at CMS level/as a standalone cmdline tool. - in ovn-northd (for example when generating SB address sets from NB address sets) - in ovn-controller (as the current patch is doing). Regards, Dumitru _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
