[ovs-discuss] VXLAN tunnels and routing

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Sun Dec 21 15:47:34 UTC 2014


On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Tal Yaniv <Tal.Yaniv at contextream.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I’d like Linux network stack to handle my routing, if I define an OVS
> bridge, with several interfaces (eth0-eth2) , which are on different
> networks.
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> Plus, several VXLAN ports on the same bridge.
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> And I define a flow with a VXLAN encapsulation action and output to LOCAL
> (meaning to the Linux network stack).

You need to output to a VXLAN port. There is no VXLAN action, only one
to set tunnel parameters such as IP address. Once you send the packet
to the tunnel port, it will be routed by the Linux stack as you
describe.



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