[ovs-discuss] VxLAN in 1.3.0

[Ethan Jackson]

> 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

This is correct.  The ovs-vswitchd.conf.db and the ovs-vsctl man page
have quite a bit of documentation on the subject as well.

Ethan




>
> .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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