It doesn't make sense to use external control plane and fill internal FDB at the same time. It's even an illegal combination for VXLAN-GPE.
Just switch off learning when 'external' is specified. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com> --- ip/iplink_vxlan.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/ip/iplink_vxlan.c b/ip/iplink_vxlan.c index e3bbea0031df..e9d64b451677 100644 --- a/ip/iplink_vxlan.c +++ b/ip/iplink_vxlan.c @@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ static int vxlan_parse_opt(struct link_util *lu, int argc, char **argv, remcsumrx = 0; } else if (!matches(*argv, "external")) { metadata = 1; + learning = 0; } else if (!matches(*argv, "noexternal")) { metadata = 0; } else if (!matches(*argv, "gbp")) { -- 1.8.3.1