Sunday, October 29, 2023

Re: Can I connnect a linux bridge with an openbsd veb?

On the Linux side there is gretap, so you should be able to use egre on OpenBSD to create an L2 bridge. You should also take a look at VXLAN.

diana

On October 29, 2023 5:08:30 PM MDT, Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:
>I use OpenBSD for my home network router. The internet-facing side is a veb
>with my physical em0 and two vports serving as my two external interfaces.
>My lan is connected to a separate em1 port.
>
>Behind the router I have a linux server with virtual machines, their
>virtual interfaces connected to a linux bridge which is either bridged with
>the physical interface or kept private inside the server.
>
>I wonder if there is a way to connect the linux bridge to the openbsd
>bridge so that my virtual linux containers can be exposed to the external
>internet?
>
>I found egre and nvgre as possible candidates in the excellent OpenBSD
>manuals, but before I start destroying things I would like to know if this
>is even the right way to go.

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