From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: vxlan in Linux kernel 3.7 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:49:16 -0800 Message-ID: <20121227104916.4fb2af04@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: "Qin, Xiaohong" Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:33075 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752738Ab2L0Suh (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:50:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:42:51 -0500 "Qin, Xiaohong" wrote: > Hi All, > > I have installed kernel 3.7 on my Linux box, see the following uname -a output, > > uname -a > Linux c210-m2-sib-3 3.7.0-030700-generic #201212102335 SMP Tue Dec 11 04:36:24 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Does that mean I've got VXLAN module loaded or I still need to go through some extra steps to enable or configure it? Do you have any VXLAN setup or configuration document by chance? > > Thanks. > > Dennis Qin > > P.S. If this is not the right place to ask this kind of questions, please let me know which mailing list I should use. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html VXLAN driver is part of the kernel config. If using a vendor supplied kernel, most likely it is available as a module. Try: /sbin/modinfo vxlan If you see 'ERROR: Module vxlan not found' then vxlan was not configured. You will also need to have current iproute2 utilities. $ ip -V ip utility, iproute2-ss121211