Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

[James Lott]

Wow vxlans look awesome! I am definitely going to experiment with those next! 

Thanks for the great suggestions though everyone, this thread gave me a lot more to experiment with

> On Aug 13, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si> wrote:
> 
> 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
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