Re: [ovs-dev] [ovs-dev, RFC] ovn: support for service function chaining

2017-02-10 Thread Mickey Spiegel
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 3:22 PM, wrote: > From: John McDowall > > This patchset is the first round at having Service Function Chaining > functionality through OVN. The implementation is done entirely > on the northbound side of OVN.

Re: [ovs-dev] [ovs-dev, RFC] ovn: support for service function chaining

2017-02-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
The approach of using OVN logical ports to build the chain seems clean, but I wonder whether it's general-purpose enough to do what users want. If not, that is, if some users want to use physical appliances rather than VMs or containers that are integrated into OVN, the question arises of how to

Re: [ovs-dev] [ovs-dev, RFC] ovn: support for service function chaining

2017-02-03 Thread John McDowall
Ben, Thanks for the thorough review, I will update the code and resubmit the patch. Any thoughts on the general approach to service chaining etc? Regards John On 2/3/17, 2:10 PM, "Ben Pfaff" wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:22:56PM -0800, jmcdow...@paloaltonetworks.com

Re: [ovs-dev] [ovs-dev, RFC] ovn: support for service function chaining

2017-02-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:22:56PM -0800, jmcdow...@paloaltonetworks.com wrote: > From: John McDowall > > This patchset is the first round at having Service Function Chaining > functionality through OVN. The implementation is done entirely > on the northbound side

[ovs-dev] [ovs-dev, RFC] ovn: support for service function chaining

2017-02-02 Thread jmcdowall
From: John McDowall This patchset is the first round at having Service Function Chaining functionality through OVN. The implementation is done entirely on the northbound side of OVN. It is a bump on the wire implementation, so no attempt is being made in keeping