From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] vxlan: Allow setting destination to unicast address. Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:48:20 +0100 Message-ID: <1365702500.7355.0.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <87li8pmkvh.wl%atzm@stratosphere.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , Stephen Hemminger To: Atzm Watanabe Return-path: Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:49026 "EHLO webmail.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934868Ab3DKRs1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:48:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87li8pmkvh.wl%atzm@stratosphere.co.jp> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 19:17 +0900, Atzm Watanabe wrote: > This patch allows setting VXLAN destination to unicast address. > It allows that VXLAN can be used as peer-to-peer tunnel without > multicast. > > v2: use a new argument "remote" instead of "group" based by > Stephen Hemminger's comments. > > Signed-off-by: Atzm Watanabe [...] > --- a/ip/iplink_vxlan.c > +++ b/ip/iplink_vxlan.c > @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ > > static void explain(void) > { > - fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ... vxlan id VNI [ group ADDR ] [ local ADDR ]\n"); > + fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ... vxlan id VNI [ group ADDR ] [ remote ADDR ]\n"); [...] Shouldn't that be "[ group|remote ADDR ]", to show that you can specify one or the other? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.