Sounds good to me too. To clarify, you 'just' Plan to support the encapsulation 
format and control will be still the OF controller ?

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On 08.09.2011, at 07:36, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:

> Right, I agree.  I was just referring to the ability to use its UDP tunneling 
> format to get through devices that don't like GRE.  We're also planning to 
> support a mode where VXLAN is a virtual port, like GRE, and traffic that is 
> sent out it will be encapsulated (and decapsulated on receive).
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Nicky Fatr wrote:
> 
>> Yes, VXLAN tunnel header is a good proposal, but for control plane
>> there is serve limitation: it depend on physical network multicast for
>> MAC learning. In OVS, central ovsdb controlled MAC address propagation
>> is a better choice.
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Nicky Fatr wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I don't think that TRILL/802.1AQ L2 over L2 is a good option for large
>>>> scale deployment. L2 over L3 instead is more scalable, eliminating
>>>> comlexity of physical network.
>>>> 
>>>> maybe we can expect L2 over UDP in some future release, for UDP is
>>>> more friendly than GRE in some networking configuration.
>>> 
>>> You can already do L2-over-L3 with CAPWAP.  It doesn't support a 
>>> configurable context identifier (key), but a patch has been provided by 
>>> Valient Gough and Simon Horman that adds it.  We're also looking at 
>>> supporting VXLAN, which was recently announced:
>>> 
>>>       http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-00
>>> 
>>> --Justin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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