[ovs-dev] [rspan 1/2] Document that mirroring to a GRE tunnel works and is better than RSPAN.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Aug 8 10:17:48 PDT 2011


On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 10:44:50PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > +          The output port may be any kind of port supported by Open vSwitch.
> > +          It may be, for example, a physical port (sometimes called SPAN), or a
> > +          GRE tunnel (sometimes called ERSPAN).
> 
> Do you think it's worth adding "ERSPAN" to the following line?
> 
> 	<table name="Mirror" title="Port mirroring (SPAN/RSPAN).">

Good idea, I folded that in.



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