On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 09:53:13AM +0200, Dumitru Ceara wrote: > On 3/27/24 09:43, Felix Huettner via dev wrote: > > In most cases IPv4 packets are routed only over other IPv4 networks and > > IPv6 packets are routed only over IPv6 networks. However there is no > > interent reason for this limitation. Routing IPv4 packets over IPv6 > > networks just requires the router to contain a route for an IPv4 network > > with an IPv6 nexthop. > > > > This was previously prevented in OVN in ovn-nbctl and northd. By > > removing these filters the forwarding will work if the mac addresses are > > prepopulated. > > > > If the mac addresses are not prepopulated we will attempt to resolve them > > using > > the original address family of the packet and not the address family of the > > nexthop. This will fail and we will not forward the packet. > > > > This feature can for example be used by service providers to > > interconnect multiple IPv4 networks of a customer without needing to > > negotiate free IPv4 addresses by just using any IPv6 address. > > > > Signed-off-by: Felix Huettner <felix.huettner@mail.schwarz> > > --- > > Hi Felix, > > Thanks for the patch! It's a very useful addition to the OVN feature > set. The code looks mostly OK to me, I only had some minor comments, > please see below. >
Hi Dumitru, thanks for the review. They will be addressed in v2 Thanks _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
