From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexei Starovoitov Subject: Re: VxLAN support question Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:37:28 -0700 Message-ID: <55C98A18.9020900@plumgrid.com> References: <1438753867-32403-1-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com> <20150807.114645.2108374064397756373.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "tgraf@suug.ch" , "jesse@nicira.com" , "pshelar@nicira.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Andrew Qu , David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.220.42]:33038 "EHLO mail-pa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753019AbbHKFhb (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:37:31 -0400 Received: by pabyb7 with SMTP id yb7so122269631pab.0 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:37:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 8/10/15 4:47 PM, Andrew Qu wrote: > > Pretty much what I want is that kernel will have about 1K interfaces (something like Tunnel100.1-tunnel100.1000 > To be created and attached to 1K bridge domains on which each VNI is associated with given > VNI to bridge-domain will be assigned using other CLIs) creating 1k vxlan devices is doable, but you probably want to take a look at recently added metadata mode of vxlan. Also sounds like for each vni you'd need a different multicast group? What fabric going to support that? > ************* Email Confidentiality Notice ******************** please avoid such banners.