on current patchset
from user perspective.
-Original Message-
From: Jan Scheurich [mailto:jan.scheur...@web.de]
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 6:59 PM
To: Yang, Yi Y ; d...@openvswitch.org
Cc: Simon Horman ; Jiri Benc
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 11/17] userspace: add non-tap (l3)
This patch is not in line with the ongoing work to support L3 tunnels on
legacy (non packet type-aware) OVS bridges as specified in
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oWMYUH8sjZJzWa72o2q9kU0N6pNE-rwZcLH3-kbbDR8/edit?usp=sharing
To avoid extensive rework, we suggest to replace the patch with the
Add support for layer 3 GRE vports (non-tap aka non-VTEP).
This makes use of a vport mode configuration for the existing (tap/VTEP)
GRE vports.
In order to differentiate packets for two different types of GRE vports a
new flow key attribute, OVS_KEY_ATTR_NEXT_BASE_LAYER, is used. It is
intended
