</p>
<p>
- The <ref table="Chassis"/> and <ref table="Gateway"/> tables comprise the
- PN tables.
+ The <ref table="Chassis"/> table comprises the PN tables.
</p>
<h3>Logical Network (LN) data</h3>
</column>
</group>
- <group title="Gateway Configuration">
- <p>
- A <dfn>gateway</dfn> is a chassis that forwards traffic between a
- logical network and a physical VLAN. Gateways are typically dedicated
- nodes that do not host VMs.
+ <group title="Gateway Configuration">
+ <p>
+ A <dfn>gateway</dfn> is a chassis that forwards traffic between the
+ OVN-managed part of a logical network and a physical VLAN, extending a
+ tunnel-based logical network into a physical network. Gateways are
+ typically dedicated nodes that do not host VMs.
</p>
- <column name="gateway_ports">
- Maps from the name of a port attached to the OVN integration bridge
- (typically a physical port or an Open vSwitch patch port) to a <ref
- table="Gateway"/> record that describes the details of the gatewaying
- function.
+ <column name="vtep_logical_switches">
+ Stores all vtep logical switch names connected by this gateway
+ chassis.
</column>
- </group>
+ </group>
</table>
<table name="Encap" title="Encapsulation Types">
</column>
</table>
- <table name="Gateway" title="Physical Network Gateway Ports">
- <p>
- The <ref column="gateway_ports" table="Chassis"/> column in the <ref
- table="Chassis"/> table refers to rows in this table to connect a chassis
- port to a gateway function. Each row in this table describes the logical
- networks to which a gateway port is attached. Each chassis, via
- <code>ovn-controller</code>(8), adds and updates its own rows, if any
- (since most chassis are not gateways), and keeps a copy of the remaining
- rows to determine how to reach other chassis.
- </p>
-
- <column name="vlan_map">
- Maps from a VLAN ID to a logical port name. Thus, each named logical
- port corresponds to one VLAN on the gateway port.
- </column>
- </table>
-
<table name="Logical_Flow" title="Logical Network Flows">
<p>
Each row in this table represents one logical flow. The cloud management
Most of the symbols below have integer type. Only <code>inport</code>
and <code>outport</code> have string type. <code>inport</code> names a
logical port. Thus, its value is a <ref column="logical_port"/> name
- from the <ref table="Port_Binding"/> or <ref table="Gateway"/> tables.
- <code>outport</code> may name a logical port, as <code>inport</code>,
- or a logical multicast group defined in the <ref
- table="Multicast_Group"/> table. For both symbols, only names within
- the flow's logical datapath may be used.
+ from the <ref table="Port_Binding"/> table. <code>outport</code> may
+ name a logical port, as <code>inport</code>, or a logical multicast
+ group defined in the <ref table="Multicast_Group"/> table. For both
+ symbols, only names within the flow's logical datapath may be used.
</p>
<ul>