On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:03:21PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > *** Tunnel encapsulation to publish. > > > > We can probably default to GRE. VXLAN is more modern but it only > > has a 24-bit key. STT has a 64-bit key but it's not ubiquitously > > available. > > What does ubiquitously available mean in this context? Of the tunnels > we have available (GRE, VXLAN, STT, Geneve), GRE seems a bit of an odd > choice since I think for most sets of constraints you could choose one > that is a better fit. (Even Microsoft is moving away from it for > network virtualization.)
I only mean that people have to compile a new kernel module to use STT. What tunnel type do you recommend? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
