
<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px">Aside from VDE, in Linux host network another option is Ethernet over GRE, e.g.:<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444072625870_2650"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444072625870_2652">http://blog.asiantuntijakaveri.fi/2012/01/layer-2-over-layer-3-using-linux-built.html<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444072625870_2654">http://askubuntu.com/questions/314892/ethernet-over-gre<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444072625870_2656">https://lwn.net/Articles/303062<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444072625870_2658">http://www.kanadas.com/program-e/2013/02/two_types_of_gre_tunneling_con.html<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444072625870_2660">http://baturin.org/docs/iproute2/#Create%20a%20gretap%20%28ethernet%20over%20GRE%29%20device<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444072625870_2662"><br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444072625870_2664"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444072625870_2713" dir="ltr">I have not personally tried it, so cannot tell if it works well, but the advantage is that the capability is built into standard Linux distribution and does not require layered software.</div></div></body></html>