[ovs-dev] terminating ERSPAN

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sun Aug 3 17:18:09 UTC 2014


We do have some Cisco contributors now, so I suppose that they could
implement it if they chose to do so.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 09:27:57PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> ERSPAN is a Cisco-proprietary format. ??You can configure OVS to
> mirror packets through a GRE tunnel, which is quite similar, though.
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On August 2, 2014 at 9:16:23 PM, Meenakshi Vohra (mvohra at vmware.com) wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >  
> > I have looked into the FAQ that ERSPAN is not supported by Open vSwitch but would like to  
> > confirm if there is any short term plan to implement it. Any suggestions on other end to  
> > end options that support ERSPAN decapsulation for incoming traffic and send the packets  
> > out to multiple hosts at the same time.
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > Meenakshi
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