VXLAN Gateways
Mark Berly, the guest star of my VXLAN Technical Deep Dive webinar focused on VXLAN gateways. Here’s the first part of his presentation, explaining what VXLAN gateways are and where you’d need them.
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VXLAN seems to get a lot of support from the industry and recently Linux as of v3.7 as well. Has anyone tested the Linux implementation?
I gave it a spin and wasn't very successful. I noticed that the VXLAN packets are sent with unicast MACs and the VXLAN 8Byte header didn't seem right too!