From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [Patch iproute2] vxlan: use 8472 as default dst port Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 13:25:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20130515132549.2404413a@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <1368616270-5775-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> <20130515095322.275c9b2f@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <20130515.132213.120685330795916926.davem@davemloft.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: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]:40184 "EHLO mail-pb0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756964Ab3EOUZy (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 May 2013 16:25:54 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f47.google.com with SMTP id rr4so1687372pbb.20 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 13:25:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130515.132213.120685330795916926.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 15 May 2013 13:22:13 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > 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. Ok, then I will make the user specify a port. We just have to have a way to force new installations to use the correct port.