Subject: Re: openvswitch question

From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:50:46 +0100

Le 20/03/2014 02:36, Jesse Gross a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:44 AM, ratheesh kannoth
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>>
>> openvswitch internal devices are not real nic. So some routine should
>> receive the packet  for this interface. Who is receiving packet for
>> this internal device.
>> I could find a question similar floating without any answer
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvswitch.devel/19402
>
>  From the perspective of the network stack, there is no difference
> between Open vSwitch internal devices and real NICs so the entry
> points into the stack are the same.

Stop me if I'm wrong, but there may be a difference with netns, the netdevice
can be in a different netns than the ovs port.