From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Is there a preferred way to get the VXLAN port number? Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:52:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20130327105254.2e10de02@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <51521B05.6060401@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev , "Gasparakis, Joseph" , Stephen Hemminger , pshelar@nicira.com, David Miller To: Alexander Duyck Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f52.google.com ([209.85.220.52]:38811 "EHLO mail-pa0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753725Ab3C0RxG (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:53:06 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id fb10so694233pad.11 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:53:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51521B05.6060401@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:02:45 -0700 Alexander Duyck wrote: > I was wondering if someone would happen to know if there is already a > preferred way to get the VXLAN port number for things such as > configuring a device to recognize a VXLAN frame on receive for parsing > purposes? > > I just wanted to check to make sure I hadn't missed something before > submitting a patch that would export a simple function for supplying the > vxlan_port value. > > Thanks, > > Alex > -- > 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 There are two views of the world. One view is that the UDP port number should be a fixed assigned number by IANA, and since VXLAN looks exactly like Cisco LISP, that is what most people use. Others like DOVE seem to want to use lots of values.