The First Open vSwitch VXLAN Patch is In
Posted: October 13, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized 4 Comments
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2011-October/012051.html
This is roughly 6 weeks after the draft was made public. Of course, the standardization process will probably change a few things, but it’s great to be able to have something tangible now. And, as I’ve mentioned before, Open vSwitch should already support NVGRE.
October 13, 2011 at 3:44 am
Now that’s what I call “feature velocity”. One of the nice things about software switching with x86 at the edge of the network.
October 20, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Seeing your comment here made me go check what you’re up to now, Brad.
Dell, rather fortuitously, now makes both x86 servers and hardware switches. That makes for some interesting possibilities of intelligence in virtual switches at the edge cooperating with physical switches in the infrastructure.
October 18, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Hi there.
I’m amazed by this speedy release. I see multicast is not implemented yet, though. Is there any storm control or similar mechanism implemented here?
October 19, 2011 at 1:32 am
Heya Pablo,
The patch for multicast tunnels is also under review. Here is the start of the patch.
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2011-October/012134.html