From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [Patch iproute2] vxlan: use 8472 as default dst port Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 13:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20130515.132213.120685330795916926.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1368616270-5775-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> <20130515095322.275c9b2f@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dlstevens@us.ibm.com, amwang@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: stephen@networkplumber.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:32943 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932742Ab3EOUWQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 May 2013 16:22:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130515095322.275c9b2f@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:53:22 -0700 > No. I want all users to get the IANA assigned port unless they specifically > override it. For compatibility kernel can't change to the IANA value > but user space needs to nudge users in the correct direction. You're changing the behavior people get by invoking the tools the way they were doing so previously. Therefore, just as we can't change the kernel's default, you really can't legitimately change iproute2's either.