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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-03 08:08:17 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-03 08:08:17 -0700 |
commit | dd5cdb48edfd34401799056a9acf61078d773f90 (patch) | |
tree | 8e251fb4a4c196540fe9b6a6d8b13275f93a057c /Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt | |
parent | 1e1a4e8f439113b7820bc7150569f685e1cc2b43 (diff) | |
parent | 62da98656b62a5ca57f22263705175af8ded5aa1 (diff) | |
download | linux-dd5cdb48edfd34401799056a9acf61078d773f90.tar.bz2 |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Another merge window, another set of networking changes. I've heard
rumblings that the lightweight tunnels infrastructure has been voted
networking change of the year. But what do I know?
1) Add conntrack support to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer.
2) Initial support for VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding), which
allows the segmentation of routing paths without using multiple
devices. There are some semantic kinks to work out still, but
this is a reasonably strong foundation. From David Ahern.
3) Remove spinlock fro act_bpf fast path, from Alexei Starovoitov.
4) Ignore route nexthops with a link down state in ipv6, just like
ipv4. From Andy Gospodarek.
5) Remove spinlock from fast path of act_gact and act_mirred, from
Eric Dumazet.
6) Document the DSA layer, from Florian Fainelli.
7) Add netconsole support to bcmgenet, systemport, and DSA. Also
from Florian Fainelli.
8) Add Mellanox Switch Driver and core infrastructure, from Jiri
Pirko.
9) Add support for "light weight tunnels", which allow for
encapsulation and decapsulation without bearing the overhead of a
full blown netdevice. From Thomas Graf, Jiri Benc, and a cast of
others.
10) Add Identifier Locator Addressing support for ipv6, from Tom
Herbert.
11) Support fragmented SKBs in iwlwifi, from Johannes Berg.
12) Allow perf PMUs to be accessed from eBPF programs, from Kaixu Xia.
13) Add BQL support to 3c59x driver, from Loganaden Velvindron.
14) Stop using a zero TX queue length to mean that a device shouldn't
have a qdisc attached, use an explicit flag instead. From Phil
Sutter.
15) Use generic geneve netdevice infrastructure in openvswitch, from
Pravin B Shelar.
16) Add infrastructure to avoid re-forwarding a packet in software
that was already forwarded by a hardware switch. From Scott
Feldman.
17) Allow AF_PACKET fanout function to be implemented in a bpf
program, from Willem de Bruijn"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1458 commits)
netfilter: nf_conntrack: make nf_ct_zone_dflt built-in
netfilter: nf_dup{4, 6}: fix build error when nf_conntrack disabled
net: fec: clear receive interrupts before processing a packet
ipv6: fix exthdrs offload registration in out_rt path
xen-netback: add support for multicast control
bgmac: Update fixed_phy_register()
sock, diag: fix panic in sock_diag_put_filterinfo
flow_dissector: Use 'const' where possible.
flow_dissector: Fix function argument ordering dependency
ixgbe: Resolve "initialized field overwritten" warnings
ixgbe: Remove bimodal SR-IOV disabling
ixgbe: Add support for reporting 2.5G link speed
ixgbe: fix bounds checking in ixgbe_setup_tc for 82598
ixgbe: support for ethtool set_rxfh
ixgbe: Avoid needless PHY access on copper phys
ixgbe: cleanup to use cached mask value
ixgbe: Remove second instance of lan_id variable
ixgbe: use kzalloc for allocating one thing
flow: Move __get_hash_from_flowi{4,6} into flow_dissector.c
ixgbe: Remove unused PCI bus types
...
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt index 6d993510f091..c28f4989c3f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt +++ b/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 |