[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Update the default VXLAN destination UDP port to the IANA assigned port

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Fri Apr 26 18:21:03 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Kyle Mestery <kmestery at cisco.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
> index 2744325..a734aeb 100644
> --- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
> +++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
> @@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@
>             </p>
>             <p>
>               As an experimental protocol, VXLAN has no officially assigned UDP
> -             port.  Open vSwitch currently uses UDP destination port 8472.
> +             port.  Open vSwitch currently uses UDP destination port 4789.

One minor thing: I think we probably could remove the first sentence
saying that no port has been assigned and maybe drop the "currently"
in the next sentence. Otherwise though, both this and the FAQ entry
look good to me.



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