[pve-devel] [PATCH docs] pve-network: add short section explaining Open vSwitch

[Christian Ebner]

Okay, I can do that. Will dig a little bit deeper into Linux bridges and their current capabilities as well as OVS.

Thx for your feedback!

> On August 28, 2019 10:32 AM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com> wrote:
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> On 28.08.19 10:10, Aaron Lauterer wrote:
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> > On 8/28/19 9:42 AM, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> >> On 27.08.19 16:31, Aaron Lauterer wrote:
> >>> On 8/27/19 12:27 PM, Christian Ebner wrote:
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner at proxmox.com>
> >>>
> >>>> +In contrast to Linux virtual bridges, OVS bridges can carry multiple VLANs over
> >>>> +a sinlge bridge.
> >>>
> >>> # this is not true. by now Linux bridges can be set to VLAN aware and thus reduce the use cases for the OVS quite a bit.
> >>
> >> With vlan-aware on you cannot do any VXLANs anymore, AFAIK, which OVS still can.
> >> But yes, in general that comment is not the full truth so maybe just omit it
> >> for now..
> >>
> > 
> > What if we put a subsection "Open vSwitch vs. Linux bridges" / "Comparison to Linux bridges" at the beginning of the OVS section?
> > 
> > I think one or two paragraphs there could help people a lot to decide if they even need OVS. Talking about the features and use cases. In which situations the Linux Bridge is not enough anymore and OVS is needed.
> 
> Sounds good to me. Would then need to be updated from time to time, though, as
> Linux Bridges have seen quite some improvements over time I'd guess there's more
> to come in future kernel releases.