Ok thanks Justin. I’m also using a controller connected to the switch. So an l3_learning module controller should be sufficient of the routing right? Anyways I’ll try vxlan or GRE for tunnelling since I haven’t heard of geneve . Thanks for your help :) Nishanth > On 26-Sep-2015, at 11:56 pm, Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com> wrote: > > >> On Sep 26, 2015, at 1:09 AM, Nishanth Devarajan <dev_ra...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the quick reply Justin. Can I use port mirroring for the job? >> What would you suggest. > > Please don't drop the list. > > If you want to interconnect networks, I don't think mirroring is what you > want. Mirroring is for sending a copy of traffic for some collector--usually > for off-box analysis. For testing, I would probably use vxlan or geneve (if > it's available on your platform), since those will have the best performance > characteristics with the fewest caveats if you later want to run it in > production. As I mentioned, though, any of the tunneling mechanisms are fine > for testing. > > --Justin > >
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