From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: raj@tardy.usa.hp.com (Rick Jones)
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] documentation: bring vxlan documentation more up-to-date
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:09:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150811150957.78de9c33@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150811204716.79B2C29004D1@tardy>
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:47:16 -0700 (PDT)
raj@tardy.usa.hp.com (Rick Jones) wrote:
> + # ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth1
> +
> +This creates a new device named vxlan0. The device uses the
> +multicast group 239.1.1.1 over eth1 to handle traffic for which there
> +is no entry is in the forwarding table. The Linux implementation of
> +VXLAN pre-dates the IANA's selection of a standard destination port
> +number and uses the Linux-selected value by default to maintain
> +backwards compatibility. If you wish to use the IANA-assigned
> +destination port number of 4789 you can add "dstport 4789" to the
> +command line above.
This example should be changed to use "dstport 4789".
Almost anyone reading the documentation will want to use the IANA value.
Note: ip command will give a noisy warning if dstport is not set.
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2015-08-11 20:47 [PATCH net-next] documentation: bring vxlan documentation more up-to-date Rick Jones
2015-08-11 22:09 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-08-11 22:18 ` Rick Jones
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