Commit d2a85c18 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Documentation/networking/index.rst

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   tuntap

   udplite

   vrf

   vxlan



.. only::  subproject and html

Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt→Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0



======================================================

Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networking documentation

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@@ -21,7 +24,8 @@ 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

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
@@ -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

2. Delete vxlan device::



    # ip link delete vxlan0



3. Show vxlan info

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

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

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