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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt | 52 |
3 files changed, 40 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 56db1efd7189..46e88ed7f41d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1181,6 +1181,11 @@ tag - INTEGER Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required. Default value is 0. +xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER + The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4 + destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will + refuse new allocations. + Alexey Kuznetsov. kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru @@ -1617,6 +1622,11 @@ ratelimit - INTEGER otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds. Default: 1000 +xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER + The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6 + destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will + refuse new allocations. + IPv6 Update by: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt index 9825f32a8634..476df0496686 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt @@ -367,4 +367,5 @@ driver's rocker_port_ipv4_resolve() for an example. The driver can monitor for updates to arp_tbl using the netevent notifier NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE. The device can be programmed with resolved nexthops -for the routes as arp_tbl updates. +for the routes as arp_tbl updates. The driver implements ndo_neigh_destroy +to know when arp_tbl neighbor entries are purged from the port. 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 |