[openstack-dev] [quantum] BP ovs partial mesh

Tomasz Paszkowski ss7pro at gmail.com
Mon Mar 18 15:35:08 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Édouard Thuleau
<edouard.thuleau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I made a PoC to the proxy ARP proposed solution.
> I made it on Folsom release with OVS+GRE driver.
> This PoC removing broadcast and multicast traffic on the l2. Only DHCP is
> authorized. The ARP traffic is DNATed to ARP proxy.

Or they can be directly forwarded to arp proxy using flows.

>
> To do that, I add this openflow rules to the egress traffic of all port (in
> priority order):
> - Authorize BOOTP broadcast packets

In this case they should be directly forwarded to dhcp-agents. There's
no need to forward them over the entire network.


Both things could be achieved with extending current openvswitch-agent
to just create appropriate filter flows :-))



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