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author | José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com> | 2016-04-11 10:41:07 +0300 |
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committer | José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com> | 2016-04-13 08:17:18 +0300 |
commit | e09b41010ba33a20a87472ee821fa407a5b8da36 (patch) | |
tree | d10dc367189862e7ca5c592f033dc3726e1df4e3 /kernel/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt | |
parent | f93b97fd65072de626c074dbe099a1fff05ce060 (diff) |
These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources
are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page.
During the rebasing, the following patch collided:
Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85).
Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the
source already.
Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769
Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt | 52 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt b/kernel/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt index 6d993510f..c28f4989c 100644 --- a/kernel/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt +++ b/kernel/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt @@ -1,32 +1,36 @@ Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networking documentation ====================================================== -The VXLAN protocol is a tunnelling protocol that is designed to -solve the problem of limited number of available VLAN's (4096). -With VXLAN identifier is expanded to 24 bits. - -It is a draft RFC standard, that is implemented by Cisco Nexus, -Vmware and Brocade. The protocol runs over UDP using a single -destination port (still not standardized by IANA). -This document describes the Linux kernel tunnel device, -there is also an implantation of VXLAN for Openvswitch. - -Unlike most tunnels, a VXLAN is a 1 to N network, not just point -to point. A VXLAN device can either dynamically learn the IP address -of the other end, in a manner similar to a learning bridge, or the -forwarding entries can be configured statically. - -The management of vxlan is done in a similar fashion to it's -too closest neighbors GRE and VLAN. Configuring VXLAN requires -the version of iproute2 that matches the kernel release -where VXLAN was first merged upstream. +The VXLAN protocol is a tunnelling protocol designed to solve the +problem of limited VLAN IDs (4096) in IEEE 802.1q. With VXLAN the +size of the identifier is expanded to 24 bits (16777216). + +VXLAN is described by IETF RFC 7348, and has been implemented by a +number of vendors. The protocol runs over UDP using a single +destination port. This document describes the Linux kernel tunnel +device, there is also a separate implementation of VXLAN for +Openvswitch. + +Unlike most tunnels, a VXLAN is a 1 to N network, not just point to +point. A VXLAN device can learn the IP address of the other endpoint +either dynamically in a manner similar to a learning bridge, or make +use of statically-configured forwarding entries. + +The management of vxlan is done in a manner similar to its two closest +neighbors GRE and VLAN. Configuring VXLAN requires the version of +iproute2 that matches the kernel release where VXLAN was first merged +upstream. 1. Create vxlan device - # ip li add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth1 - -This creates a new device (vxlan0). The device uses the -the multicast group 239.1.1.1 over eth1 to handle packets where -no entry is in the forwarding table. + # ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth1 dstport 4789 + +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 in the forwarding table. The destination port number is set to +the IANA-assigned value of 4789. 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. 2. Delete vxlan device # ip link delete vxlan0 |