[ovs-discuss] VxLAN Configuration

Vasu Dasari vdasari at gmail.com
Tue Jun 4 17:48:56 UTC 2019


Ben,

Do you think, is there a way I can use "tun_metadataXX" infrastructure with
"push" and "pop" actions to achieve adding and remove headers? Or these
operations are quite centric to ash/geneveve, etc??

-Vasu

*Vasu Dasari*


On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:13 PM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 09:33:03PM -0400, Vasu Dasari wrote:
> > I would like to specify VxLAN header fields in its entirety. That is,
> would
> > like to specify following fields of the VxLAN packet:,
> >
> > Output port: Physical port from which frame needs to leave.
> > Encapsulated L2 header: Ethernet Source, Destination, Vlan Tag
> > Encapsulated L3 header: IP source, Ip destination
> > VxLAN Header: VNI
> >
> > I see that I can specify L3 and VNI fields using, tun-src, tun-dst,
> tun-id
> > fields.
> > I am wondering how would I specify encapsulated L2 header and physical
> > output port information?
>
> OVS doesn't currently implement VXLAN that way.
>
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