[ovs-discuss] RHEL patch to support GRE tunnels

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 03:20:52PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:59:50PM +0200, Madko wrote:
> >> If someone is interested here are 2 trivial patches to add ifcfg
> >> ifup/ifdown ovs scripts to support gre interface
> >
> > Seems reasonable enough, can I get a Signed-off-by?
> 
> If we do this for GRE, then we should do it for other tunnels too.?

Good point.

> FYI,
> We can create GRE tunnels through the OVS_EXTRA option when
> TYPE=OVSIntPort with the current mechanism.

I see that you're right, but that's a counterintuitive way to do it
because one would have to override the type=internal automatically
provided by OVSIntPort.

What if we added an OVSCustom or OVSTunnel type where one is expected to
provide everything?