From owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org Thu Aug 13 23:39:45 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8E19B839D for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:39:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 656A181B for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:39:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si) Received: from amavis-ori.ijs.si (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3mskrr4xBQz2h; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:39:40 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ijs.si; h= user-agent:message-id:references:in-reply-to:organization :subject:subject:from:from:date:date:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:content-type:mime-version:received:received :received:received; s=jakla4; t=1439509178; x=1442101179; bh=57Y HbSyYpipAP54P6Ki9E1Q5h3fTzieKxCIAk/dWXy4=; b=PyVvCHbtJNi4WmKV21X Ts3RjO6wF8S7pCRPZ9lYQSe3voHYyO+Fb4dBJpz447X4qwS4ltDpMxdlvHeTu1na i4KRGmua/ZmlWQpxIU82O2XquXR8+5vHUTFRhvrvUkgHkTRzE8XTjamuHAqQwyjH gbMMm+OOo0u9GEYKyOMWVqZg= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([IPv6:::1]) by amavis-ori.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:::1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with LMTP id VW1VhKwVFdba; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:39:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mildred.ijs.si (mailbox.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::143:1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3mskrn2796z2d; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:39:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from neli.ijs.si (neli.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80:88:21c:c0ff:feb1:8c91]) by mildred.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3mskrn07TRz1R5; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:39:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sleepy.ijs.si ([2001:1470:ff80:e001::1:1]) by neli.ijs.si with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:39:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:39:36 +0200 From: Mark Martinec To: James Lott Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD Organization: J. Stefan Institute In-Reply-To: <55CD1CE6.2010502@lottspot.com> References: <55CD1CE6.2010502@lottspot.com> Message-ID: <3e2b39d46709d7329feb57065ce08478@mailbox.ijs.si> X-Sender: Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:39:45 -0000 2015-08-14 00:40 James Lott wrote: > I am in the process of planning a build out of a L2 VPN, in which I'd > like to have my primary "switch" and DHCP server be a FreeBSD system. > I would like to join each new host to the VPN by establishing an IP > tunnel with the primary "switch" which transports ethernet frames over > the tunnel. > > So far, the only protocol I have found supported by FreeBSD which > seems capable of this is EtherIP. As far as I can tell, it doesn't > look like there is any support for L2TPv3, and none of the PPP > implementations available appear to support BCP. > > I'm not completely opposed to using EtherIP, but if there is something > more modern which will meet my needs, I would probably try that first. > So my question becomes: > > * Does anyone know of a method supported under FreeBSD (other than > EtherIP) for tunneling ethernet over IP that they may be able to > suggest I check out? vxlan ? It is new with FreeBSD 10.2. Mark