[ovs-discuss] Open Vswitch to establish the GRE Tunnel

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Sep 23 18:18:29 UTC 2011


No one has written a tutorial.  It's a good idea.

It's hard to say what you are doing wrong, when you don't say what you
did or what happened.

Thanks,

Ben.

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:16:24AM -0700, terryxing wrote:
> Dear Ben,
> 
> I am so frustrated that I have been working on this tunnel for 8 hours. I
> still meet some problem .
> 
> There is not specific tutorial for establishing the tunnel between two
> physical xenserver.  Actuayll, i am little bit confuse with the concept of
> OVS, interface, port and bridge.
> 
> Can you explain it a little bit or , is there any whitepaper kinda thing I
> can look into?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:21 PM, terryxing <xingtianyi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > so, it is possible to create the same virtual networks for different two
> > VMs (with the same VLAN) on two different physical hosts ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> >
> >> That should be possible.  That's one of the advantages of GRE over,
> >> say, VLANs.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:06:26PM -0700, terryxing wrote:
> >> > Ben,
> >> >
> >> > Thank you very much about you timely reply.
> >> >
> >> > So, I know open vswitch work compatible with xenserver. Is it possible
> >> for
> >> > the open vswitch to tunnel two physical xenserver hosts at different
> >> > locations (we have public ip for both two xenserver hosts) ? ?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:12:40PM -0700, terryxing wrote:
> >> > > > Is that any documents or tutorial talking about this open vswitch
> >> gre
> >> > > > tunnel establishment ? Thanks very much.
> >> > >
> >> > > http://openvswitch.org/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5.pdf, see pages 13
> >> > > through 15 especially.
> >> > >
> >> > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-September/005731.html
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Best regards,
> >> >
> >> > Tianyi Xing (?????????)
> >> >
> >> > PhD Student, Research & Teaching Associate
> >> > SNAC:Secure Networking and Computing group
> >> > School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
> >> > Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering,
> >> > Arizona State University
> >> > Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
> >> > Cell: (+1) 480-678-3090
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Tianyi Xing (?????????)
> >
> > PhD Student, Research & Teaching Associate
> > SNAC:Secure Networking and Computing group
> > School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
> > Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering,
> > Arizona State University
> > Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
> > Cell: (+1) 480-678-3090
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tianyi Xing (?????????)
> 
> PhD Student, Research & Teaching Associate
> SNAC:Secure Networking and Computing group
> School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
> Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering,
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
> Cell: (+1) 480-678-3090



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