[talk] vxlan interfaces

[Jesse Callaway]

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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I wonder if this is the sauce AWS uses/invented.

-- 
-jesse
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