Ok, thanks for the tip, I will give it a go and let you know how it turns out.

Thanks for the help.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Gross [mailto:je...@nicira.com] 
Sent: 06 September 2012 16:37
To: Farrow, Paul
Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Linking multiple VM with remote OVS

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Farrow, Paul <pwf...@essex.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi, thanks again for the help and the quick reply.
>
> I tried using GRE support built into OVS but I think I am using it in the 
> wrong way, as I do not have an OVS at the remote host; this is because I just 
> want to connect multiple remote hosts to a single OVS running on a remote VM.
>
> To give a bit more info, this is what im doing:  I am using the gre built 
> into OVS on the central machine running the only OVS in the system, but on 
> the remote hosts I am using the iptunnel functionality built into linux to 
> create the other end of the tunnel. Will this work?

It should work as long as you use "gretap" as the type on the Linux side.

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