From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] documentation: bring vxlan documentation more up-to-date Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:09:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20150811150957.78de9c33@urahara> References: <20150811204716.79B2C29004D1@tardy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , To: raj@tardy.usa.hp.com (Rick Jones) Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.220.43]:35167 "EHLO mail-pa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753881AbbHKWJz (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:09:55 -0400 Received: by pacgr6 with SMTP id gr6so59395348pac.2 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:09:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150811204716.79B2C29004D1@tardy> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.