On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Changbin Liu <changbin....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Using Open vSwitch I am setting up VXLAN tunnels between hosts. I intend to > make VXLAN tunnels "highly available" via Keepalived. Specifically, there > are one master node and one backup node for each host, and they share a > Virtual IP (VIP) via Keepalived, and the VXLAN tunnel will use the VIP as > endpoint IP. This way when the master node fails, the backup node will > automatically have the VIP shifted to it. Therefore, human efforts are not > involved in failure recovery. > > I thought VXLAN can work with VIP this way, since VXLAN simply uses UDP > packets, and as long as the endpoint VIP does not change, it should work. > But it turns out that it didn't at all. I wonder whether this is intended > behavior or I missed something.
It should be possible to use VXLAN with a VIP. The IP stack is configured outside of OVS so you should make sure that it is working in Linux first. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
