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Message-ID: <20111123053717.GK3344@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:37:17 -0800
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Cc:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.

* John Fastabend (john.r.fastabend@...el.com) wrote:
> He is pushing and popping entire tags off 802.1Q for now but
> you can easily imagine MPLS tags and all sorts of other things
> people will _need_.

Right, already doing some generic encap/decap for tunnelling.

> Do we want tc and likely the skbedit action to explode into a
> packet mangling tool? Would it make sense to plug into ebtables
> perhaps with a new family, NFPROTO_OPENFLOW or even on the
> existing NFPROTO_BRIDGE.

Of course, ovs is not limited to layer2 switching.

> Although doing it with classifiers and more actions would flush
> out that TODO in act_mirred, and get us an mq_ingress among
> other things.
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