netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] documentation: bring vxlan documentation more up-to-date

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Message-ID: <55CA74CE.3000704@hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:18:54 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] documentation: bring vxlan documentation more
 up-to-date

On 08/11/2015 03:09 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:47:16 -0700 (PDT)
> raj@...dy.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

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