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tinc based L2 mesh for OpenStack

Given three bare metal machines hosted at Hetzner, eNovance and OVH, l2mesh can be used to create a new ethernet interface L2M on each of them. It behaves as if they had a physical ethernet card connected to a hardware switch in the same room. The machine at eNovance could be the DHCP server providing the IP for the L2M interface of the Hetzner machine. In addition, if the connection between the eNovance machine and the Hetzner machine does not work, the packets will use the OVH machine as an intermediary, making the mesh resilient to network outage.
The documentation page for l2mesh has been added to the example section of the tinc web site after a discussion with Guus Sliepen.
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