[ovs-dev] Open vSwitch with VxLAN

[Nikhil]

Thanks a lot. I somehow missed that file ;)

Best Regards,
Nikhil

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <kmestery at cisco.com
> wrote:

> Bringing the list back onto this thread, accidentally removed during last
> reply.
>
> On Apr 12, 2012, at 8:35 AM,  wrote:
> > On Apr 12, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Nikhil wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for you reply.  I cloned ovs-vxlan from GIT, and I am able
> to see 'remotes/origin/ovs-vxlan' branch. My query is regarding
> installation. I am not able to see makefile or configure scripts. Could you
> kindly guide me with installation.
> >>
> > Since what you cloned is basically OVS + VXLAN patches, it's the same as
> for regular OVS. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.Linux and you should be
> good to go.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kyle
> >
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Nikhil
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <
> kmestery at cisco.com> wrote:
> >> On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Nikhil wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to setup Open vSwitch with VxLAN tunneling. Could you
> kindly let me know how should I apply patches to open vSwitch. I downloaded
> mestery's https://github.com/mestery/ovs-vxlan.git. Saw changes in
> datapath folder for vport-vxlan.c and vport-vxlan.h.
> >>>
> >>> Could you let me know the process need to be followed for installing
> the open vSwitch with VxLAN ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>> Nikhil
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Nikhil:
> >>
> >> The patches from my github there currently allow you to setup a tunnel
> using VXLAN the same way you would do it with GRE. The only difference is
> it would be using VXLAN instead of GRE. You can basically follow the GRE
> setup but use a "type=vxlan" instead of gre.
> >>
> >> I'm working on the actual VXLAN changes now, such that it follows the
> IETF draft and supports multicast learning, etc. Those are a work in
> progress.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Kyle
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/attachments/20120412/18d0e62c/attachment-0003.html>