netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] vxlan: Allow setting destination to unicast address.

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Message-ID: <1365702500.7355.0.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:48:20 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Atzm Watanabe <atzm@...atosphere.co.jp>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] vxlan: Allow setting destination to unicast
 address.

On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 19:17 +0900, Atzm Watanabe wrote:
> This patch allows setting VXLAN destination to unicast address.
> It allows that VXLAN can be used as peer-to-peer tunnel without
> multicast.
> 
> v2: use a new argument "remote" instead of "group" based by
>     Stephen Hemminger's comments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Atzm Watanabe <atzm@...atosphere.co.jp>
[...]
> --- a/ip/iplink_vxlan.c
> +++ b/ip/iplink_vxlan.c
> @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
>  
>  static void explain(void)
>  {
> -	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ... vxlan id VNI [ group ADDR ] [ local ADDR ]\n");
> +	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ... vxlan id VNI [ group ADDR ] [ remote ADDR ]\n");
[...]

Shouldn't that be "[ group|remote ADDR ]", to show that you can specify
one or the other?

Ben.

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