Re: [ovs-dev] another provider network idea

2015-07-21 Thread Russell Bryant
On 07/21/2015 03:07 PM, Salvatore Orlando wrote: > This makes sense to me as well. > > It's surely better to have structured data rather then encode them in > resource names. > > In the options attribute for a "local" logical port, I guess the "name" > attribute will be the name of some ovs bridg

Re: [ovs-dev] another provider network idea

2015-07-21 Thread Salvatore Orlando
This makes sense to me as well. It's surely better to have structured data rather then encode them in resource names. In the options attribute for a "local" logical port, I guess the "name" attribute will be the name of some ovs bridge instance where the port is plugged. From a neutron integratio

Re: [ovs-dev] another provider network idea

2015-07-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:59:30AM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: > On 07/14/2015 10:59 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Here's an a strawman alternative. Instead of representing a provider > > network as a single logical network, represent it as a collection of > > logical networks, one for each connected

Re: [ovs-dev] another provider network idea (was: [RFC] ovn: physical network integraiton (WIP))

2015-07-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Please don't drop the list. On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:24:36AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 07:59:48AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > I think that the various issues with trying to treat a provider network > > as a logical network are going to difficult to resolve. I think th

Re: [ovs-dev] another provider network idea

2015-07-14 Thread Russell Bryant
On 07/14/2015 10:59 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I think that the various issues with trying to treat a provider network > as a logical network are going to difficult to resolve. I think that > they reflect a conceptual difference between OVN logical networks and > provider networks. OVN knows the host

[ovs-dev] another provider network idea (was: [RFC] ovn: physical network integraiton (WIP))

2015-07-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
I think that the various issues with trying to treat a provider network as a logical network are going to difficult to resolve. I think that they reflect a conceptual difference between OVN logical networks and provider networks. OVN knows the hosts on a logical network and where they reside, but