[talk] vxlan interfaces

[Pete Wright]

On 08/15/2015 07:05 AM, Jesse Callaway wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Jesse Callaway <bonsaime at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>>
>>> noticed this addition to FreeBSD in the 10.2-RELEASE notes yesterday:
>>>
>>> "The vxlan(4) driver has been added, which creates a virtual Layer 2
>>> (Ethernet) network overlaid in a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The vxlan(4)
>>> driver is analogous to vlan(4), but is designed to be better suited for
>>> large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments. [r284365]"
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vxlan&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+10.2-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html
>>>
>>> This looks pretty interesting to me and it looks like this is supported
>>> by Cisco (as well as other switch vendors probably too).  Has anyone on the
>>> list used this in production?
>>>
>>> I'd love to hear some use-cases - I can think of it being useful in the
>>> virutalization world (amazon VPC for example).
>>>
>>> cheers!
>>> -pete
>>>
>>>
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>>> Pete Wright
>>> pete at nomadlogic.org
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>>
>> I wonder if this is the sauce AWS uses/invented.
>>
>> --
>> -jesse
>>
>
> Looking over it.. .and I don't know how I missed your last sentence there.
> The RFC was drafted by engineers employed at Cisco, Arista, Broadcom,
> RedHat, Vmware, and Citrix. I'm pretty sure that this is what the VPC's use
> from how the Amazon sales engineers explained it. This is also how I got
> the impression that they invented it, but what was said was actually that
> "we had to write our own code for a custom solution".
>

yea i agree with you jesse - def seems like an ideal fit for VPC type 
deployments.  okan pointed me towards a talk at asia bsdcon about vxlan 
in openbsd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufeEP_hzFN0

-pete


-- 
Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org