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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2012-10-30 00:09:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2012-10-30 00:09:18 -0700 |
| commit | 68fe0f0a6dcd2ac1ace5da3647a6d1cf0f4d2fea (patch) | |
| tree | 69d855c2e46d42ef8f23680cf3a1e6ff38de9ef4 /Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt | |
| parent | 88fd449e734a4264347e12b8ff74ccb33a9b9a35 (diff) | |
| parent | 8f0d8163b50e01f398b14bcd4dc039ac5ab18d64 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v3.7-rc3' into for-linus to sync up with recent USB changes
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5b34b762d7d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +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. + +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. + +2. Delete vxlan device + # ip link delete vxlan0 + +3. Show vxlan info + # ip -d show vxlan0 + +It is possible to create, destroy and display the vxlan +forwarding table using the new bridge command. + +1. Create forwarding table entry + # bridge fdb add to 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 dst 192.19.0.2 dev vxlan0 + +2. Delete forwarding table entry + # bridge fdb delete 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 + +3. Show forwarding table + # bridge fdb show dev vxlan0 |