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