Subject: Re: VxLAN support question

From: Alexei Starovoitov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:37:28 -0700

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?

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