On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:47:16 -0700 (PDT)
r...@tardy.usa.hp.com (Rick Jones) wrote:

> +  # ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth1
> +
> +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 entry is in the forwarding table.  The Linux implementation of
> +VXLAN pre-dates the IANA's selection of a standard destination port
> +number and uses the Linux-selected value by default to maintain
> +backwards compatibility.  If you wish to use the IANA-assigned
> +destination port number of 4789 you can add "dstport 4789" to the
> +command line above.

This example should be changed to use "dstport 4789".
Almost anyone reading the documentation will want to use the IANA value.

Note: ip command will give a noisy warning if dstport is not set.
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