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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-05-01 16:44:26 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-05-01 12:24:40 -0700
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docs: networking: convert vxlan.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header; - adjust title markup; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt)33
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
index 2227b9f4509d..a72fdfb391b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ Contents:
tuntap
udplite
vrf
+ vxlan
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst
index c28f4989c3f0..ce239fa01848 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+======================================================
Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networking documentation
======================================================
@@ -21,8 +24,9 @@ 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 link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth1 dstport 4789
+1. Create vxlan device::
+
+ # 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
@@ -32,20 +36,25 @@ 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
+2. Delete vxlan device::
+
+ # ip link delete vxlan0
-3. Show vxlan info
- # ip -d link show 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
+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
-2. Delete forwarding table entry
- # bridge fdb delete 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 dev vxlan0
+3. Show forwarding table::
-3. Show forwarding table
- # bridge fdb show dev vxlan0
+ # bridge fdb show dev vxlan0