On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Kenneth Østrup <kenne...@easyspeedy.com> wrote:
> Greetings, > > For the past months I've been testing and reading about OVN as a cloud > agnostic networking platform for a project I am working on. OVN is exactly > what I've been looking for and I'm really impressed with all the work that > has been done while still keeping simplicity in the core of the design. > > In the OVN talk at OpenStack Summit in Austin, it was mentioned that there > was an OVN gateway running on a bare-metal switch. I'd really like to know > more about this, how it is implemented and if there is a current working > prototype? > This is related to the use of ovn-controller-vtep and TOR switches that support the hardware_vtep OVSDB schema. It provides an L2 gateway into a physical network. "Life cycle of a VTEP gateway" in the ovn-architecture man page may be of interest to you. There is also the capability to have software L2 or L3 gateways on a server running ovn-controller. -- Russell Bryant
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