Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 22:58:36 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging a vlan trunk with a gif tunnel? Message-ID: <5AC101AC.60906@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <20180401164209528151.6f554119@spg.tu-darmstadt.de> References: <20180401164209528151.6f554119@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
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01.04.2018 21:42, Hauke Fath wrote: > I am trying to network a remote site with a main site through a bridged > gif tunnel, and it doesn't work for me. gif(4) supports only untagged frames when added to a bridge. You need to create gif-per-vlan or switch to newer vxlan(4). > In the past, I have set up a similar link by tunneling ip over gif, but > routing turned out to be intricate what problems do you have with routing over gif? It works just fine for me. > and I figured just bridging the exclave with the main site would save me routing issues, And bring in bridging issues that are more severe. > plus I could stick with the existing subnets. And have extra overhead to pass +14 bytes of headers of MAC addresses per frame. Single gif+bridge does not support trunks.
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