[Swan] vxlan support

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Tue Jan 23 17:30:48 UTC 2018


On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:

> vxlan tunnels an L2 frame over udp. (rfc 7348)

Ahh. I see.

> are you planning on applying ipsec to the vxlan'ed frame?
>
> If yes, you'd have to set up your swan tunnel config for something like
>
>  leftprotoport=udp/4789
> and
>  rightprotoport=udp/4789
>
> (you'd need 2 tunnels per peering pair)

Why two? Are both peers using an ephemeral souce port? If it is port
4789 to port 4789, wouldn't one tunnel be enough?

Paul


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