X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL.XenServer;h=e31788aef5a2e727085a8bf6f33d204894645207;hb=bd3ad2c3508aaf7283f3ee041ecd3e5108471b21;hp=7a4dd76e8cc910750840fdc54eaeb081871bf92f;hpb=1e3f34c7693bcabae8e443ac1b246680ef9b60e2;p=sliver-openvswitch.git diff --git a/INSTALL.XenServer b/INSTALL.XenServer index 7a4dd76e8..e31788aef 100644 --- a/INSTALL.XenServer +++ b/INSTALL.XenServer @@ -158,7 +158,10 @@ command. The plugin script does roughly the following: * If XAPI is configured for a manager, configures the OVS manager to match with "ovs-vsctl set-manager". -The Open vSwitch boot sequence only configures an OVS configuration +Notes +----- + +* The Open vSwitch boot sequence only configures an OVS configuration database manager. There is no way to directly configure an OpenFlow controller on XenServer and, as a consequence of the step above that deletes all of the bridges at boot time, controller configuration only @@ -166,6 +169,14 @@ persists until XenServer reboot. The configuration database manager can, however, configure controllers for bridges. See the BUGS section of ovs-controller(8) for more information on this topic. +* The Open vSwitch startup script automatically adds a firewall rule +to allow GRE traffic. This rule is needed for the XenServer feature +called "Cross-Host Internal Networks" (CHIN) that uses GRE. If a user +configures tunnels other than GRE (ex: VXLAN, LISP), they will have +to either manually add a iptables firewall rule to allow the tunnel traffic +or add it through a startup script (Please refer to the "enable-protocol" +command in the ovs-ctl(8) manpage). + Reporting Bugs --------------