[ovs-dev] Fwd: Implementing NVGRE on Open vSwitch

Saleha Asad salehageti at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 03:55:05 UTC 2012


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From: Saleha Asad <salehageti at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Implementing NVGRE on Open vSwitch
To: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>


Hey can you give some directions for starting the implementation of NVGRE.
I have
installed NOX on my machine and I am trying to figure out the ways of
configuration of the already existing GRE tunnel on Open vSwitch to form
NVGRE
tunnel.

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Saleha Asad <salehageti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am working on implementing NVGRE on Open vSwitch. I wanted to know that
> > whether NVGRE can be implemented using the GRE tunnel by configuring it
> and
> > by setting the GRE key?If so,is there a need to configure OpenFlow and
> Open
> > vSwitch protocols?
>
> Yes, NV-GRE uses the same frame format as normal GRE so you can create
> a tunnel port in the database with the appropriate endpoint and key.
>
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