webrulon / vxlan-vyatta

vxlan module for vyatta

vxlan-vyatta

vxlan-vyatta is vxlan module for vyatta. It enables that you can use vxlan through vyatta. This vxlan implementation is based on http://github.com/upa/vxlan (vxlan implementation on linux Userland).

vxlan-vyatta can be used on VC6.4 oxnard and VC6.5 pacifica.

Install

vxlan-vyatta requires vyatta to be installed gcc, make and git before installing this application.

 % git clone git://github.com/upa/vxlan-vyatta.git
 % cd vxlan-vyatta
 % make install

Fatal

In VC6.4, vxlan-vyatta applies vxlan extention patch to /opt/vyatta/share/perl5/Vyatta/Interface.pm . This patch will be removed when you will uninstall vxlan-vyatta.

Uninstall

 % make uninstall

How to use vxlan through Vyatta

vyatta installed vxlan-vyatta provides vxlan configuration command in term of protocols vxlan and interface vxlan .

 vyatta@vyatta:~$ configure
 [edit]
 vyatta@vyatta# edit protocols vxlan 

At 1st, you shoud configure multicast-address and multicast-interface . Default Multicast address is 239.0.0.1, and vxlan does not select multicast interface if you don't specify the multicast-interface.

 vyatta@vyatta# set multicast-address 239.0.0.100
 [edit protocols vxlan]
 vyatta@vyatta# set multicast-interface eth1
 [edit protocols vxlan]
 vyatta@vyatta# show
 +multicast-address 239.0.0.1
 +multicast-interface eth1
 [edit protocols vxlan]
 vyatta@vyatta#

2nd, you configure VNI (Virtual Network Identifier).

 [edit protocols vxlan]
 vyatta@vyatta# set vni 0
 [edit protocols vxlan]
 vyatta@vyatta# set vni  1
 [edit protocols vxlan]
 vyatta@vyatta# top
 [edit]
 vyatta@vyatta# show protocols
 +vxlan {
 +    multicast-address 239.0.0.1
 +    multicast-interface eth1
 +    vni 0
 +    vni 1
 +}
 [edit]
 vyatta@vyatta# commit

vxlan-vyatta creates tap interface that is named vxlan[VNI]. And You can use vxlan interface like ethernet interface.

ToDo

• Create deb package
• IPv6 Multicast Address
• Kernel Module (?)

Contact

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