[ovs-discuss] VxLAN in 1.3.0

[Martin Casado]

On 1/4/12 7:28 AM, Mike Bursell wrote:
> That's a relief: I looked at the code, and I really, really couldn't see it there!

Yeah, sorry about that.

>
> Is there an easy howto guide for setting up GRE tunnels anywhere?  Seems like a nice cookbook entry.  I'd consider writing it, but I'm struggling to find the details myself!

I don't know of one off hand.  The command for creating a tunnel is (or 
at least is was at one point :):

ovs-vsctl -- add-port br0 gre0 \
                -- set Interface gre0 type=gre options:remote_ip=1.2.3.4

.martin
> Cheers,
>
> -Mike.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Martin Casado [mailto:casado at nicira.com]
>> Sent: 04 January 2012 15:26
>> To: Mike Bursell
>> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
>> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] VxLAN in 1.3.0
>>
>> Whoops, VXLAN in the feature list is my fault.  I thought it had been pushed,
>> but it hasn't due to the additional control work that needs to get done.  I'll
>> removed it.  GRE is supported, of course.  If you're referring to NVGRE, Open
>> vSwitch allows setting and doing lookups on the GRE key, so the framing
>> format is supported.  But again, the control path needs to be implemented.
>>
>> .martin
>>
>>> According to http://openvswitch.org/features/, 1.2.2 contains VXLAN and
>> GRE support.  However, as far as I can tell, there's no relevant code in either
>> 1.2.2 or 1.3.  I've found a set of patches (see
>> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2011-October/012207.html for the
>> first one), but they don't seem to have made it into trunk.
>>> Am I missing something?  (If I am, many apologies).
>>>
>>> -Mike.
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