Commit 33a1aaf8 authored by Jakub Kicinski's avatar Jakub Kicinski Committed by David S. Miller

docs: vxlan: add info about device features

Add some information about VxLAN-related netdev features
and how to dump port table via ethtool.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8c4cf4bc
......@@ -58,3 +58,31 @@ forwarding table using the new bridge command.
3. Show forwarding table::
# bridge fdb show dev vxlan0
The following NIC features may indicate support for UDP tunnel-related
offloads (most commonly VXLAN features, but support for a particular
encapsulation protocol is NIC specific):
- `tx-udp_tnl-segmentation`
- `tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation`
ability to perform TCP segmentation offload of UDP encapsulated frames
- `rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload`
receive side parsing of UDP encapsulated frames which allows NICs to
perform protocol-aware offloads, like checksum validation offload of
inner frames (only needed by NICs without protocol-agnostic offloads)
For devices supporting `rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload` the list of currently
offloaded ports can be interrogated with `ethtool`::
$ ethtool --show-tunnels eth0
Tunnel information for eth0:
UDP port table 0:
Size: 4
Types: vxlan
No entries
UDP port table 1:
Size: 4
Types: geneve, vxlan-gpe
Entries (1):
port 1230, vxlan-gpe
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