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On 30 March 2017 at 08:47, Saverio Proto <saverio.proto at switch.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use the neutron l2gw plugin, but I am not using a bare
> metal switch to bridge.
>
> I am using a server with Openvswitch.
>

I am not aware of any effort to implement L2GW purely in software, in fact
this was one key missing pieces that prevented the project to have CI
solely dealt with the upstream infra resources. Perhaps OVN may come to the
rescue here, I recall at some point the team was looking at the L2GW API.

Thanks,
Armando


>
> Following this documentation:
>
> http://networkop.co.uk/blog/2016/05/21/neutron-l2gw/
>
> At one point there is this command:
>
> sudo vtep-bootstrap L5 10.0.0.5 192.168.91.21 --no_encryption
>
> This vtep-bootstrap is specific for Cumulux Linux
>
> Anybody has documentation with normal vtep-ctl commands ?
>
> So far on the Ubuntu server I did the following:
>
> apt-get install openvswitch-vtep
> ovsdb-tool create /etc/openvswitch/vtep.db
> /usr/share/openvswitch/vtep.ovsschema
>
> Anyone has more complete documentation ?
>
> I did not understand if the vtep-openvswitch controlled by the l2gw
> plugin will make vxlan tunnels to all the compute nodes, to bridge the
> tenant network with a physical l2 network ? Or all this traffic has to
> pass to the network node also because the vtep openvswitch is not able
> to talk to the compute nodes ?
>
> thank you
>
> Saverio
>
>
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