Please see my reply below.
> On Mar 11, 2017, at 11:59 PM, Egg VS Sphere <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
If you have no access to the family router such that you cannot set
up/configure NAT rules, then I think you will not be able to accomplish what
you're seeking.
--
Scott
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