Merge commit '259e0b1ad1bfea762a76f0098deb8f8d8db1dfa3'

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / INSTALL.XenServer

diff --git a/INSTALL.XenServer b/INSTALL.XenServer
index 7a4dd76..e31788a 100644 (file)
--- 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
 --------------