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authorDavid Gwynne <dlg@cvs.openbsd.org>2022-02-16 06:54:09 +0000
committerDavid Gwynne <dlg@cvs.openbsd.org>2022-02-16 06:54:09 +0000
commit4ff5faf01a4d564d01c0136b1d04a24fd4436622 (patch)
tree9c0b5607f1ea1c3bf3e41e4645c4a1d3f39cd5f4
parentd594b92480b32159dbe2cd619d5b5a7a9445c409 (diff)
document endpoint mode
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/vxlan.415
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/vxlan.4 b/share/man/man4/vxlan.4
index 15a2d91c746..8917c828f05 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/vxlan.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/vxlan.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: vxlan.4,v 1.11 2022/02/16 02:13:43 dlg Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: vxlan.4,v 1.12 2022/02/16 06:54:08 dlg Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2013 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -60,13 +60,20 @@ When a unicast IP address is configured as the tunnel destination,
all traffic is sent to a single tunnel endpoint.
.It Ic learning mode
When a multicast IP address is configured as the tunnel destination,
-broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast packets are sent to the
+.Nm
+operates as a learning bridge.
+Broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast packets are sent to the
specified multicast group.
Packets received by the tunnel source address are used to dynamically
learn the endpoint addresses for the encapsulated Ethernet source
addresses.
-.\" .It Ic endpoint mode
-.\" When configured without a tunnel destination address,
+.It Ic endpoint mode
+When configured without a tunnel destination address,
+.Nm
+operates as a bridge, but with learning disabled.
+Endpoints for Ethernet addresses must be added explicitly before
+packets will be sent for those addresses.
+All valid VXLAN packets sent to the local address will be accepted.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
Create a point-to-point tunnel using Virtual Network Identifier 5: