Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting two servers over layer 2 openvswitch without encapsulation

2020-11-12 Thread Gilbert Standen
cannot be avoided. From: Ben Pfaff Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:44 PM To: Gilbert Standen Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting two servers over layer 2 openvswitch without encapsulation On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 05:29:

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connecting two servers over layer 2 openvswitch without encapsulation

2020-11-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 05:29:10AM +, 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.

[ovs-discuss] Connecting two servers over layer 2 openvswitch without encapsulation

2020-11-12 Thread Gilbert Standen
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