On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 05:29:10AM +0000, Gilbert Standen wrote: > So this may be a very dumb question, but is there any way to connect > two separate physical servers with layer 2 openvswitches on each > separate server over a physical layer 3 network without using an > encapsulation scheme (e.g. GRE, VXLAN, etc) ? There are many > workloads that are somewhat hobbled by having to use MTU other than > 1500 or 9000, such as database workloads, and so I'm asking this > probably dumb question, because just me, I cannot see how it is > possible to avoid encapsulation when pushing data between servers over > a layer 2 network running on a physical layer 3 network, but I thought > I would ask anyway. Thanks, Gilbert
It appears that you have described what networks do anyway. No special configuration is needed. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list disc...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
