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

Tomasz Paszkowski ss7pro at gmail.com
Fri Mar 15 22:54:18 UTC 2013


Connecting non broadcast network solution with LISP will also
eliminate need to build virtual mesh between compute hosts.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Tomasz Paszkowski <ss7pro at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'am thinking about completely removing broadcast traffic from gre
> networks and ignore l2 addressing. It could be achieved by introducing
> openflow controller, which can make all the forwarding decisions
> (direct traffic to appropriate tunnels and interfaces on compute
> hosts). For IP/DHCP/ARP traffic this is very easy as we already know
> ip addresses of all vms , dhcp-agents, l3-agents. Questions is which
> openflow controller implementation to take and if we would like to
> build a central controller or a distributed one.
>
> What do you think about this ?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Rohon Mathieu <mathieu.rohon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> I just wanted to share about a BP to limit broadcasting in every
>> tunnel while using OVS and GRE. This could also be used for VXLan
>> tunneling.
>>
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/ovs-tunnel-partial-mesh
>>
>> the specification show a call flow for the port creation.
>>
>> Does anyone see something wrong in my architecture?
>>
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