[ovs-discuss] LISP Tunneling

[Lori Jakab]

On 4/4/17 7:38 AM, Sanjana Vohra wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to work on LISP tunneling between OVS on two physical
> machines, rather than VMs. I was able to do this on VMs, since all the
> instructions available are all for VMs, but the same doesn't seem to
> work when I'm trying the setup on physical machines. Can someone help
> me regarding the configurations needed to be done for having a LISP
> tunneling setup between physical machines?

I haven't looked at this in quite a while, but I would assume you have
ARP issues. Can you check if this snippet from the documentation helps?
> In case 2) the VMs expect ARP replies from each other, but this is not
> possible
> over a layer 3 tunnel.  One solution is to have static MAC address entries
> preconfigured on the VMs (e.g., ``arp -f /etc/ethers`` on startup on
> Unix based
> VMs), or have the hypervisor do proxy ARP.  In this scenario, the eth0
> interfaces need not be added to the br0 bridge in the examples below.

HTH,
-Lori