[ovs-discuss] SoftGRE

[Jesse Gross]

Yes.

On Friday, January 31, 2014, Ronaldo Afonso <ronaldo at ronaldoafonso.com.br>
wrote:

>   So Jesse,
>
>   Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>   Are you saying that OVS can encapsulate Ethernet frames and send those
> frames over a GRE tunnel?
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> 2014-01-30 Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jesse at nicira.com');>
> >:
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>> GRE is already stateless so that's unlikely to be the difference.
>> However, GRE tunnels that interconnect with routers are typically L3
>> and OVS does purely Ethernet over GRE.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Ronaldo Afonso
>> <ronaldo at ronaldoafonso.com.br<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ronaldo at ronaldoafonso.com.br');>>
>> wrote:
>> >   Well,
>> >
>> >   As far as I know, it's a kind of stateless GRE.
>> >
>> >   I'm trying to establish a softGRE tunnel with an Alcatel 7750
>> hardware and
>> > I was wondering if that SoftGRE is a proprietary tecnology or if it's
>> > possible to use it with one of the Open Sources project like Open
>> vSwitch or
>> > Open WRT.
>> >
>> >   The reason for my question was exactly to know if someone else has
>> already
>> > heard about that "Soft GRE".
>> >
>> >   I could not find much information on the Internet.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > 2014-01-30 Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jesse at nicira.com');>
>> >
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>> >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Ronaldo Afonso
>> >> <ronaldo at ronaldoafonso.com.br<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ronaldo at ronaldoafonso.com.br');>>
>> wrote:
>> >> >   Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> >   Does anybody know about SoftGRE?
>> >>
>> >> What is it?
>> >
>> >
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>> >
>> > --
>> > Ronaldo Afonso
>> > 11 9 5252 0484
>> > www.ronaldoafonso.com.br
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> --
> Ronaldo Afonso
> 11 9 5252 0484
> www.ronaldoafonso.com.br
>
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