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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] Linking multiple VM with remote OVS
From:       pwfarr () essex ! ac ! uk (Farrow, Paul)
Date:       2012-09-10 17:13:26
Message-ID: 3ABA2D15A88055488B12DB0FADB614786DE243C8 () mbx0-node1 ! essex ! ac ! uk
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I managed to get it all working using your tip of using gretap instead of standard \
gre tunnelling, thanks for your help Jesse

-----Original Message-----
From: Farrow, Paul 
Sent: 07 September 2012 15:44
To: 'Jesse Gross'
Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
Subject: RE: [ovs-discuss] Linking multiple VM with remote OVS

Ok, thanks for the tip, I will give it a go and let you know how it turns out.

Thanks for the help.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Gross [mailto:jesse at nicira.com] 
Sent: 06 September 2012 16:37
To: Farrow, Paul
Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Linking multiple VM with remote OVS

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Farrow, Paul <pwfarr at essex.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi, thanks again for the help and the quick reply.
> 
> I tried using GRE support built into OVS but I think I am using it in the wrong \
> way, as I do not have an OVS at the remote host; this is because I just want to \
> connect multiple remote hosts to a single OVS running on a remote VM. 
> To give a bit more info, this is what im doing:  I am using the gre built into OVS \
> on the central machine running the only OVS in the system, but on the remote hosts \
> I am using the iptunnel functionality built into linux to create the other end of \
> the tunnel. Will this work?

It should work as long as you use "gretap" as the type on the Linux side.

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