On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:21 AM, ESWAR RAO <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Can someone help me in understanding below scenario?? > > I created the vxlan tunnel port using flow based tunneling. > # ovs-vsctl add-port br-tun vxlan1 -- set Interface vxlan1 type=vxlan > options:remote_ip=flow options:key=flow options:local_ip=<alias_ip_address> > > If we have multiple bridges in same node(like a mininet case) where each > bridge is realized like a host and if we create tunnel on each bridge based > on flows and alias ip addresses of the node are used for > set_field:<alias_ip_addr->tun_dst in flows, I could ping between the linux > namespaces attached to those bridges. > > I am unable to understand how the alias_ip_address is mapped to a particular > bridge since all are in same node?? > Does local_ip used in tunnel creation is used in this case??
Yes, the static information configured on the port is used during the lookup to find the port and, by extension, the bridge. You can't have multiple tunnel ports without some way to disambiguate them since otherwise there would be no way to find the right bridge. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
