SFC for OVN

Lazuardi Nasution mrxlazuardin at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 16:32:56 UTC 2020


Hi,

Nutanix approach might be interesting.

http://www.openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2018/6/1530-manohar.pdf

Best regards,

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 11:08 PM Lazuardi Nasution <mrxlazuardin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> By https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/ussuri/admin/config-sfc.html, it is
> stated that SFC essentially is the SDN version of PBR. On the other side,
> PBR is supported by OVN. Is there any initiative of Neutron SFC driver for
> OVN which utilize native PBR support of OVN without having to alternate the
> OVN itself?
>
> For example, for having a port pair of port A to port B for flow
> classifier of HTTP traffic, we might make PBR which match HTTP traffic from
> port A address and set the next hop to port B address. The other way which
> might be used is destination NATing (redirection) on port A for HTTP
> traffic to port B address. OVN has native support for NAT too, but I think
> the PBR way is better.
>
> Best regards,
>
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