[ovs-discuss] Fw: VXLAN: How to pass VNI while setting up VXLAN Tunnel
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Tue Jan 24 21:10:53 UTC 2012
The patches include documentation. Please read it.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:08:20PM -0800, senthil arumugam wrote:
> Ben
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> Sorry. I forgot to mention it. I have applied the patches as per the thread
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> [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Implement draft VXLAN L2-over-L3 tunneling protocol.
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> And I could ping vm1 and vm2 across this tunnel.
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> What I am looking for is how to pass VNI in the setup command.
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> Thanks
> =Senthil
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> ________________________________
> From: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> To: senthil arumugam <hai_senthil at yahoo.com>
> Cc: jesse at nicira.com; jpettit at nicira.com
> Sent: Tue, January 24, 2012 12:29:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: VXLAN: How to pass VNI while setting up VXLAN Tunnel
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> Open vSwitch doesn't currently support VXLAN.
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> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:55:41AM -0800, senthil arumugam wrote:
> > Experts
> > Please give me a pointer to get it..
> >
> > Thanks
> > =Senthil
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> > From: senthil arumugam <geetha_senthil at sbcglobal.net>
> > To: discuss at openvswitch.org
> > Cc: senthil arumugam <hai_senthil at yahoo.com>
> > Sent: Mon, January 23, 2012 11:11:08 AM
> > Subject: VXLAN: How to pass VNI while setting up VXLAN Tunnel
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> > Hi
> > I could set up vxlan tunnel across 2 hosts
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> > - sudo ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vx0 -- set interface vx0 type=vxlan
> > options:remote_ip=10.0.0.2
> >
> > I am looking at a way by which I can pass VNI (VXLAN NETWORK IDENTIFIER) while
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> > setting tp this tunnel;
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> > I tried with following command that is accepted.
> > - sudo ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vx0 -- set interface vx0 type=vxlan
> > options:remote_ip=10.2.0.1 options:id=9 ( I also triied - options:vni=9)
> >
> > But while looking at VXLAN header contents through wireshark, I still see that
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> > VNI is not set.. So not sure the option 'id' maps to VNI
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> > Thanks
> > _Senthil
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