[ovs-dev] terminating ERSPAN

Meenakshi Vohra mvohra at vmware.com
Sun Aug 3 19:07:46 UTC 2014


Cisco contributors please comment if this can be implemented :-)

The remote end Cisco 7K router is sending the ERSPAN traffic that my third
party receiving devices are not able to understand so looking into options.

Thanks,
Meenakshi

On 8/3/14, 10:18 AM, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

>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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