Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

[Mark Martinec]

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