Commit e8fed985 authored by Rick Jones's avatar Rick Jones Committed by David S. Miller

documentation: bring vxlan documentation more up-to-date

A few things have changed since the previous version of the vxlan
documentation was written, so update it and correct some grammar and
such while we are at it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b0c6ce24
Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networking documentation Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networking documentation
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The VXLAN protocol is a tunnelling protocol that is designed to The VXLAN protocol is a tunnelling protocol designed to solve the
solve the problem of limited number of available VLAN's (4096). problem of limited VLAN IDs (4096) in IEEE 802.1q. With VXLAN the
With VXLAN identifier is expanded to 24 bits. size of the identifier is expanded to 24 bits (16777216).
It is a draft RFC standard, that is implemented by Cisco Nexus, VXLAN is described by IETF RFC 7348, and has been implemented by a
Vmware and Brocade. The protocol runs over UDP using a single number of vendors. The protocol runs over UDP using a single
destination port (still not standardized by IANA). destination port. This document describes the Linux kernel tunnel
This document describes the Linux kernel tunnel device, device, there is also a separate implementation of VXLAN for
there is also an implantation of VXLAN for Openvswitch. Openvswitch.
Unlike most tunnels, a VXLAN is a 1 to N network, not just point Unlike most tunnels, a VXLAN is a 1 to N network, not just point to
to point. A VXLAN device can either dynamically learn the IP address point. A VXLAN device can learn the IP address of the other endpoint
of the other end, in a manner similar to a learning bridge, or the either dynamically in a manner similar to a learning bridge, or make
forwarding entries can be configured statically. use of statically-configured forwarding entries.
The management of vxlan is done in a similar fashion to it's The management of vxlan is done in a manner similar to its two closest
too closest neighbors GRE and VLAN. Configuring VXLAN requires neighbors GRE and VLAN. Configuring VXLAN requires the version of
the version of iproute2 that matches the kernel release iproute2 that matches the kernel release where VXLAN was first merged
where VXLAN was first merged upstream. upstream.
1. Create vxlan device 1. Create vxlan device
# ip li add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth1 # ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth1 dstport 4789
This creates a new device (vxlan0). The device uses the This creates a new device named vxlan0. The device uses the multicast
the multicast group 239.1.1.1 over eth1 to handle packets where group 239.1.1.1 over eth1 to handle traffic for which there is no
no entry is in the forwarding table. 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 2. Delete vxlan device
# ip link delete vxlan0 # ip link delete vxlan0
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