[neutron][ovn] The implementation status of DVR for port forwarding in OpenStack.

Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez ralonsoh at redhat.com
Tue Jun 6 09:20:40 UTC 2023


Hello Han:

That is a very good question. I would suggest you ask it in the OVN mailing
list [1]. They will provide you with a better answer than in this list.

Regards.

[1]https://docs.ovn.org/en/latest/internals/ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org

On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 4:10 PM 韩光宇 <hanguangyu2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I previously learned that distributed SNAT has not been implemented in
> ML2/OVS yet, and traffic for floating IP port forwarding still goes
> through the network node.
>
> Therefore, I tried using ML2/OVN. However, I found that the traffic
> for floating IP port forwarding still goes through the network node.
> Does anyone know if this is normal or if OVN has implemented DVR for
> port forwarding? Or is it because there is an issue with my
> configuration?
>
> I deploy a master ubuntu env by kolla, and I had set dvr of ovn.
> ```
> # in /etc/kolla/globals.yml
> neutron_plugin_agent: "ovn"
> neutron_ovn_distributed_fip: "yes"
> ```
>
> I would like to know if OVN currently implements DVR for port
> forwarding. If not, what can I do to distribute the traffic load for
> port forwarding of OpenStack? In my use case, I need to create a large
> number of port forwarding rules, which puts a lot of pressure on the
> network node.
>
> I will appreciate any help or advice.
>
> Best regards,
> Han Guangyu
>
>
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