BFD is built into OVS, not an external application. It should not be hard to find out how it works by grepping the OVS source code.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Avi Cohen <avi.co...@huawei.com> wrote: > Jesse, > Thanks for your immediate response. > Can u refer me to a sample applications/architecture (bfd?) > injecting/receiving packet to/from OVS > Regards avi > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse Gross [mailto:je...@kernel.org] > Sent: Wednesday, 23 December, 2015 2:46 AM > To: Avi Cohen > Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] trace route for vxlan overlay network > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Avi Cohen <avi.co...@huawei.com> wrote: >> Hello all >> >> I saw in >> https://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@openvswitch.org/msg15373.html >> , >> >> that trace-route is not implemented yet in OVS. > > Well, that discussion is not really related to this since its about > traceroute where OVS is a transit switch. > >> I need to implement a more enhanced trace-route for vxlan overlay. >> >> As we use the OVS as a vTEP device I need to trace-route the actual >> data-path for a given vxlan-segment (since there are multi ecmp paths >> – this should traverse a specific path based on the source UDP port) >> >> This is done by transmitting a series an vxlan encapsulated packets with an >> incremental TTL , IP-destined to the remote vTEP. an intermediate device >> (which are generally traditional routers in the underlay) replies >> with ICMP ttl expired. >> >> 2 questions: >> >> - How to initiate these packets transmission in the originating >> vTEP ? can I do it from the vTEP/ a local application ? > > Packets can be injected from OVS userspace, similar to STP/BFD. When setting > up the encapsulation parameters, you can set the TTL. > >> - How the ICMP replies can be delivered/ if any to a local >> application that is connected to the vTEP via a TAP device ? > > I think you could probably capture ICMP errors using a raw socket. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
