On May 24, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Ethan Jackson wrote:
>> Sorry I have so many questions. I couldn't find a detailed
>> documentation on how this tunneling feature works and still unclear
>> about the concept. If any of you have worked on tunneling, could you
>> please kindly shed lights on this? Thank you so much!
>
> Configuration of tunnels is documented thoroughly in the
> ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page. They are pretty straight forward, when
> traffic is output to a tunnel, it is encaped, and then forwarded to
> the remote_ip configured in the database.
There's also an example of actually creating the port in the ovs-vsctl man page:
Add a GRE tunnel port gre0 to remote IP address 1.2.3.4 to bridge br0:
ovs-vsctl add-port br0 gre0 -- set Interface gre0 type=gre
options:remote_ip=1.2.3.4
--Justin
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