[ovs-discuss] Physical interface vs interface under OVS bridge Performance/throughput impact

2018-11-14 Thread Srinivas via discuss
Hello all,Lets say i have a physical interface eth0 that i move under a ovs-bridge br0. a) What would the performance / throughput impact as a result of the physical interface being part of the ovs bridge now?The reason i ask is there is probably a extra hop the packet will have to take now to

[ovs-discuss] Adding a linux bond to ovs bridge

2018-11-06 Thread Srinivas via discuss
Hello all, We have a system where we support linux bond mode 1(Active backup) and bond mode 4(LACP). The bonds are pre-created on boot up.Can we add these bonds as a ports to the ovs bridge without breaking any of the linux bond functionality? I am aware that we can create the bonds afresh

[ovs-discuss] Tuning ovs

2018-10-19 Thread Srinivas via discuss
Hello all,We are starting with ovs and want to use it as a)  a L2 switch with vlan tagging on the guest vm ports.b) no openflow rules will be configured.c) We will have 4 -5 bridges created on the system with each bridge having a corresponding  bond interface along with the guest vtap's. Given

Re: [ovs-discuss] kvm guests and vlans

2018-10-05 Thread Srinivas via discuss
gle bridge ?any security concerns if we use a single bridge as you called out? ThanksSrinivas On Saturday, 6 October, 2018, 3:19:56 AM IST, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 08:42:39PM +0000, Srinivas via discuss wrote: > Hello, I have a physical box with the following int

[ovs-discuss] kvm guests and vlans

2018-10-05 Thread Srinivas via discuss
Hello, I have a physical box with the following interface config. Note that vlans are already configured as child interfaces on the main bond0 interface. bond0:       ipaddr 10.2.34.29 (native and untagged traffic)   bond0.11:  ipaddr 172.30.11.28   (traffic for vlan 11)             bond0.12: