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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6d993510f091..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -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 link 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 dev vxlan0 - -3. Show forwarding table - # bridge fdb show dev vxlan0 |