From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] documentation: bring vxlan documentation more up-to-date Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:18:54 -0700 Message-ID: <55CA74CE.3000704@hp.com> References: <20150811204716.79B2C29004D1@tardy> <20150811150957.78de9c33@urahara> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from g4t3426.houston.hp.com ([15.201.208.54]:55862 "EHLO g4t3426.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752675AbbHKWS4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:18:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150811150957.78de9c33@urahara> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/11/2015 03:09 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > 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. I'll spin a v2. > Note: ip command will give a noisy warning if dstport is not set. Indeed. It was that noisy warning which sent me down this path in the first place :) rick jones