<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Recently, I am learning the neutron ml2 plugins. But I can not understand why the L2 physical switcher plugin(e.g. Cisco plugin) is need? </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">In Neutron, all the packets are flow from Ethernet to another, no matter what type(vlan? vxlan?) the packets are. So normally, the switcher doesn't configure.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">So what's the meaning and importance for the exist of L2 physical switcher plugins?</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Lei Zhang</font></span></div>
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