[ovs-discuss] openvswitch gre tunnels and mptcp

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 07:15:47PM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> 2014-03-28 19:10 GMT+04:00 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>:
> > balance-tcp in particular provides fault tolerance and speedup.  It
> > requires LACP to be enabled.  For fault tolerance on tunnels you'll want
> > to enable CFM or BFD monitoring.
> 
> If i can't use lacp , what can i do for speedup?

What's on the other end of the tunnel?  If it's also OVS, then you can
use LACP.

I guess you can use the "multipath" or "bundle" action as an
alternative.  "bundle" is probably better.

> In case of bfd - i need configure it on both sides of tunnel?

Yes.