[openstack-dev] [neutron] what is the different between ovs-ofctl and iptalbes? Can we use ovs-ofctl to nat floating ip into fixed ip if we use openvswitch agent?

Li Tianqing jazeltq at 163.com
Tue Nov 4 09:10:38 UTC 2014





At 2014-11-04 14:29:36, "loy wolfe" <loywolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

>maybe two reasons: performance caused by flow miss; feature parity


what do you mean `flow miss`? 


>
>L3+ flow table destroy the megaflow aggregation, so if your app has
>many concurrent sessions like web server, flow miss upcall would make

>vswitchd corrupted.


Then what the main purpose of flow table?  
>
>iptable is already there, migrating it to ovs flow table needs a lot
>of extra development, not to say that some advanced features is lost
>(for example, stateful firewall). However ovs is considering to add
>some hook to iptable, but in the very early stage yet. Even with that,

>it is not implemented by ovs datapath flowtable, but by iptable.


it makes sense...


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>On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Li Tianqing <jazeltq at 163.com> wrote:
>> ovs is implemented open flow, in ovs, it can see the l3, why do not use ovs?
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>> At 2014-11-04 11:55:46, "Damon Wang" <damon.devops at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> OVS mainly focus on l2 which iptables mainly focus on l3 or higher.
>>
>> Damon Wang
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>> 2014-11-04 11:12 GMT+08:00 Li Tianqing <jazeltq at 163.com>:
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