networkop / meshnet-cni

a (K8s) CNI plugin to create arbitrary virtual network topologies
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
116 stars 28 forks source link

Q: virtual switching in meshnet #39

Open Cerebus opened 2 years ago

Cerebus commented 2 years ago

Has anyone ever tried putting a vSwtich in a Pod and connecting it up with meshnet? How did you do it?

If this is something meshnet can't do, why not?

(thinking about new features here)

networkop commented 2 years ago

I've done a lot of the tests with what can be described as vSwitch (cEOS, Cumulus Linux etc) did you mean any specific kind of vSwitch?

Cerebus commented 2 years ago

I was thinking Open vSwitch, but I really don't have any specific capabilities other than having layer 2 switching available over meshnet links. Clearly veth/vxlan can do this but I haven't put any time at all into trying to configure something with meshnet.

Also, the ability to build layer 2 segments across multiple pods (i.e., an Ethernet hub) would be useful for some things.