On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Saleha Asad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > I am currently working on implementing NVGRE. I had certain questions in my > mind which I think could be cleared through discussion. > My understanding of NVGRE is that on the sender side when we add the NVGRE > header we set a particular VSID for the packet. This VSID is assigned on the > basis of the policy which contains a lookup table maintained by the > administrator. A lookup is performed and the VSID corresponding to the > particular MAC address and IP address is added in the NVGRE header and the > packet is sent on the tunnel. On the receiver side the VSID is extracted > from the NVGRE header and again a lookup is performed on the table > maintained at the receiver side. If the VSID of the receiving packet is > found from the table and the corresponding MAC and IP addresses are matched > then the packet is further processes otherwise discarded. > Please could anyone point out if I am wrong at some point or if I am missing > something. I wanted to know that what is the basis of this assignment of > VSID, are they just random 24 bit numbers set my the administrator or is > there some standard to follow while allotting VSIDs.
I believe it's undefined but really the draft RFC is the authoritative source here. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
