> On Jun 22, 2017, at 12:36 AM, Bruce Hartpence <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
I assumed you were connecting OVS instances together, so I'm unclear how ESXi comes into the picture. GRE can tunnel different types of traffic, and I was referring to tunneling Ethernet, which covers most people's use-cases in my experience. By the way, if you're concerned about flexibility or performance, I would look at one of the other protocol types. My preference is Geneve, but VxLAN is also a reasonable choice if you don't need the flexibility of additional metadata. --Justin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
