geneve-tunnel-example.md

Geneve tunnels using netlink examples

Scenario A - pointing to an interface as the next hop

Host A configuration (eth0 - 192.168.1.191):

# Remote Address is the IP of Host B eth0
sudo ip link add name geneve0 type geneve id 1000 remote 192.168.1.192
sudo ip link set geneve0 up
sudo ip addr add 10.200.1.1/32 dev geneve0
sudo ip route add 10.200.2.1/32 dev geneve0

Host B configuration (eth0 - 192.168.1.192):

# Remote Address is the IP of Host A eth0
sudo ip link add name geneve0 type geneve id 1000 remote 192.168.1.191
sudo ip link set geneve0 up
sudo ip addr add 10.200.2.1/32 dev geneve0
sudo ip route add 10.200.1.1/32 dev geneve0

Verify connectivity between geneve0 interfaces

# On host A
ping 10.200.2.1
# On host B
ping 10.200.1.1

Scenario B - pointing to an ip as the next hop with the geneve tunnels on the same broadcast domain

Host A configuration (eth0 - 192.168.1.191):

# Remote Address is the IP of Host B eth0
sudo ip link add name geneve0 type geneve id 1000 remote 192.168.1.192
sudo ip link set geneve0 up
sudo ip addr add 10.200.1.1/30 dev geneve0

Host B configuration (eth0 - 192.168.1.192):

# Remote Address is the IP of Host A eth0
sudo ip link add name geneve0 type geneve id 1000 remote 192.168.1.191
sudo ip link set geneve0 up
sudo ip addr add 10.200.1.2/30 dev geneve0

Verify connectivity between geneve0 interfaces

# On host A
ping 10.200.1.2
# On host B
ping 10.200.1.1

For scenario A, I was using 2 VMs as hosts on a Fedora laptop. I had to enable udp port 6081 in firewalld on both servers. Did not need to touch the host (laptop) firewall rules as it by default allows communication between VMs in the virtual network.

Thanks for this, I was able to get started with learning about geneve.

https://gist.github.com/rajeshrah22/bda1183f74ab078589fc5c6d78b34715
For an example with network namespaces within one host.