[ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch connecting between private network and public network

[Egg VS Sphere]

Hi,


I have a question about whether OpenvSwitch supports the following requirement:


Firstly, I am sure that OpenvSwitch can connect 2 sub-networks via a tunnel (e.g. vxlan) -->
Assume the IP address of two hosts are 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.147 respectively, what people should do is just to use
"ovs-vsctl add-port br1 vx1 -- set interface vx1 type=vxlan options:remote_ip=192.168.1.147" and
"ovs-vsctl add-port br1 vx1 -- set interface vx1 type=vxlan options:remote_ip=192.168.1.10" to link the 2 hosts.
It is clear that this is a DUPLEX task for each host to link to another host.


But it doesn't work on such requirement:
I have a remote cloud machine (named host-1) whose IP is allocated a public address that anyone can get access to it.
And I have a local machine (named host-2) from a family router whose IP is a private sub-net, all connections from this host to public service is NATed.


I want to link host-1 and host-2 to create a shared subnet. If I use the following method,
run "ovs-vsctl add-port br1 vx1 -- set interface vx1 type=vxlan options:remote_ip=<host-1-ip>" on host-2

run "ovs-vsctl add-port br1 vx1 -- set interface vx1 type=vxlan options:remote_ip=<host-2-ip (private network)>" on host-1



Obviously, the second command doesn't work.


I want to know whether there is a way to connect host-1 and host-2 to generate a shared subnet. (Assume I have no access to change settings of the family router)
Looking forward to your reply. Thanks!


Regards,
Ghostplant
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