Thanks for the reply - I am giving GRE a whirl with ESXi (GRE seems to be the 
choice for most). I haven't had much luck so far but it does seem 
counter-intuitive especially when dealing with traffic that does not have an IP 
header. It seems like L2TP might be a better option for connecting layer 2 
spaces together.

Bruce Hartpence
Professor, IST Dept., RIT
585-475-7938
[email protected]

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From: Justin Pettit <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 5:29 PM
To: Bruce Hartpence
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] connecting switches

> On Jun 16, 2017, at 6:19 PM, Bruce Hartpence <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello all - I am working on a use case for ovs with multiple hypervisors. I 
> am using ODL Carbon for the controller and can get all OVS instances to 
> appear in DLUX but I am missing the boat on interconnecting the switches 
> themselves. So, VMs on the different hypervisors cannot communicate. The 
> documentation suggests that patch interfaces can be used to handle this but 
> it appears to be for bridge instances on the same OVS VM.

Yes, patch ports are just used to connect bridge instances on the same 
hypervisor.  You'll want to use tunnels to connect between hypervisors.  You 
should be able to find plenty of tutorials online.

--Justin


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