[retronet] WireGuard and MPLS vs VXLAN…

John P. Willis jpw at chivanet.org
Sun Sep 9 10:38:44 MDT 2018


On Sun, 9 Sep 2018, Grant Taylor via retronet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> TL;DR:  It's working!!!
>
> I made significant progress on the RetroNet proof of concept / unit testing 
> this weekend.

This is great news!

>
> I did my PoC / UT using the following network topology:
>
>   VM(A) --- VM(B) --- (R) --- VM(C) --- VM(D)
>               |                 |
>               +----WireGuard----+

PoC/UT? Can you define this?

>
> I want to spend some time working with WireGuard and seeing how well it's 
> going to scale with multiple users.  Do we need to have multiple WireGuard 
> interfaces?  Can we put everybody on one central WireGuard interface?  What 
> about people that have multiple RetroNet node?  Do we put members on separate 
> VXLAN Network IDs (a.k.a. VNIs)?  In short, how do we take this to the next 
> level and make things function at scale.
>

Very good questions. How can I help to test this?


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