> On Apr 30, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Wes Felter <w...@felter.org> wrote:
> 
> On 4/30/15 2:47 PM, Justin Pettit wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Wes Felter <w...@felter.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 4/30/15 1:54 AM, Justin Pettit wrote:
>>>> Limit the supported tunnel types to Geneve and STT on hypervisors, and
>>>> VXLAN, Geneve, and STT on gateways.  This commit adds "DESIGN.md" that
>>>> describes the reasoning.
>>> 
>>> This wording is a little unclear. Do you mean Geneve and STT are supported 
>>> for hypervisor-to-hypervisor traffic and VXLAN, Geneve, and STT are 
>>> supported on hypervisor-gateway traffic?
>> 
>> Yes.  Do you have a suggestion for making it clearer?  It reads okay to me, 
>> but I wrote it.  :-)  More importantly, is it clear in the documentation 
>> that was added?
> 
> The documentation could be interpreted to say that hypervisors never speak 
> VXLAN at all and thus hypervisors cannot communicate with gateways, which I'm 
> pretty sure was not intended. I'd say:
> 
> +  <p>
> +    For connecting hypervisors to each other, the only supported tunnel 
> encapsulations
> +    are Geneve and STT. Hypervisors may use VXLAN to connect to gateways. We 
> have limited support to these encapsulations
> +    for the following reasons:
> +  </p>

I agree that's an improvement.  I've updated the description as you've 
suggested.

Thanks!

--Justin


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