On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Flavio Fernandes <fla...@flaviof.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Nov 1, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Flaviof <fla...@flaviof.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:05 PM, John McDowall <
> jmcdow...@paloaltonetworks.com>wrote:
> > So we would have something like:
> >
> >
> >
> > $ ovn-nbctl acl-add sw0 to-lport 1003 'outport == "sw0-port1" && ip'
> sfc-action sfc-stage external_ids:lsp_chain_id=”chain-id”
> >
> >
> >
> > The chain-id would be passed as metadata with the packet to the
> ls_in_chain stage where it would be processed according to the current
> state of its in/out ports in the chain.
> >
> >
> >
> > Where sfc is the stage and the action – would the SFC ACL Table have any
> other action other than SFC? It seems a little redundant – not sure if
> there is a better way though.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Right. If I understood correctly, the sfc-stage is optional and may be
> something we
> > may add later on to ACLs. For now, having it all in a sigle stage will
> not invalidate
> > that effort.
> >
> > Using the example comand, my main 'focus' is actually in regards to what
> else goes as
> > external_ids. I can see that besides 'lsp_chain_id', we will need
> 'last_hop_port', and
> > possibly 'bidirectional'. Sounds right?
> >
> > I will send an email with a proposed schema+xml on this shortly.
>
> It's a pretty simple change [1], as expected. :) Does that jive well with
> the changes
> you had in mind? A small caveat here is in regards to additional attributes
> the chain needs in order to create the end to end rules. That includes
> 'chain_uuid',
> 'last_hop_port' at a minimum. Other than using 'external_ids', I cannot
> see where else
> to provide them. Any better ideas?
>

Well defined options that OVN will interpret usually go into a column
called "options", so I would add that instead of using external_ids.

-- 
Russell Bryant
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