As both OVS and tunnel protocols themselves have evolved, some changes
have caused the documentation to drift from current reality.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@kernel.org>
---
vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 24 ++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index 0958fe4..5cf1ee1 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -1862,14 +1862,15 @@
<li>
The names of interfaces implemented as Linux and BSD network
devices, including interfaces with type <code>internal</code>,
- <code>tap</code>, or <code>system</code>, are limited to 15 bytes.
- Windows limits these names to 255 bytes.
+ <code>tap</code>, or <code>system</code> plus the different types
+ of tunnel ports, are limited to 15 bytes. Windows limits these
+ names to 255 bytes.
</li>
<li>
- The names of tunnels and patch ports are not used in the underlying
- datapath, so operating system restrictions do not apply. Thus,
- they may have arbitrary length.
+ The names of patch ports are not used in the underlying datapath,
+ so operating system restrictions do not apply. Thus, they may have
+ arbitrary length.
</li>
</ul>
@@ -2002,7 +2003,7 @@
<dt><code>geneve</code></dt>
<dd>
- An Ethernet over Geneve
(<code>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nvo3-geneve-00</code>)
+ An Ethernet over Geneve
(<code>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nvo3-geneve</code>)
IPv4/IPv6 tunnel.
A description of how to match and set Geneve options can be found
@@ -2028,9 +2029,9 @@
RFC 7348.
</p>
<p>
- Open vSwitch uses UDP destination port 4789. The source port
used for
- VXLAN traffic varies on a per-flow basis and is in the ephemeral
port
- range.
+ Open vSwitch uses IANA-assigned UDP destination port 4789. The
+ source port used for VXLAN traffic varies on a per-flow basis
+ and is in the ephemeral port range.
</p>
</dd>
@@ -2063,10 +2064,9 @@
Since the STT protocol does not engage in the usual TCP 3-way
handshake,
so it will have difficulty traversing stateful firewalls.
The protocol is documented at
- http://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-davie-stt-06.txt
+ https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davie-stt
- All traffic uses a default destination port of 7471. STT is only
- available in kernel datapath on kernel 3.5 or newer.
+ All traffic uses a default destination port of 7471.
</dd>
<dt><code>patch</code></dt>
--
2.5.0
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