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diff --git a/usr/src/man/man7p/vxlan.7p b/usr/src/man/man7p/vxlan.7p new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a32637b484 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/src/man/man7p/vxlan.7p @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +.\" +.\" This file and its contents are supplied under the terms of the +.\" Common Development and Distribution License ("CDDL"), version 1.0. +.\" You may only use this file in accordance with the terms of version +.\" 1.0 of the CDDL. +.\" +.\" A full copy of the text of the CDDL should have accompanied this +.\" source. A copy of the CDDL is also available via the Internet at +.\" http://www.illumos.org/license/CDDL. +.\" +.\" +.\" Copyright 2015 Joyent, Inc. +.\" +.Dd Apr 10, 2015 +.Dt VXLAN 7P +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm VXLAN , +.Nm vxlan +.Nd Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/vxlan.h +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +(RFC 7348) is a network encapsulation protocol that is used by +.Xr overlay 5 +devices. A payload, commonly an Ethernet frame, is placed inside of a +UDP packet and prepended with an 8-byte +.Nm +header. +.Pp +The +.Nm +header contains two 32-bit words. The first word is an 8-bit flags field +followed by 24 reserved bits. The second word is a 24-bit virtual network +identifier followed by 8 reserved bits. The virtual network identifier +identifies a unique +.Nm +and +is similar in concept to an IEEE 802.1Q VLAN identifier. +.Pp +The system provides access to +.Nm +through dladm overlays. See +.Xr dladm 1M +and +.Xr overlay 5 +for more information. +.Pp +The +.In sys/vxlan.h +header provides information for working with the +.Nm +protocol. The contents of this header are +.Sy uncommitted . +The header defines a structure that may be used to encode and decode a VXLAN +header. It defines a packed structure type +.Sy vxlan_hdr_t +which represents the +.Nm +frame header and has the following members: +.Bd -literal + uint32_t vxlan_flags; /* flags in upper 8 bits */ + uint32_t vxlan_id; /* VXLAN ID in upper 24 bits */ +.Ed +.Sh EXAMPLES +.Sy Example 1 +Decoding a +.Nm +header +.Pp +The following example shows how to validate a +.Nm header. For more information on this process, see RFC 7348. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +#include <sys/types.h> +#include <netinet/in.h> +#include <inttypes.h> +#include <sys/vxlan.h> + +\&... + +/* + * Validate the following bytes as a VXLAN header. If valid, return + * 0 and store the VXLAN identifier in *vidp. Otherwise, return an + * error. + */ +int +validate_vxlan(void *buf, int len, uint32_t *vidp) +{ + vxlan_hdr_t *hdr; + + if (len < sizeof (vxlan_hdr_t)) + return (EINAVL); + + hdr = buf; + if ((ntohl(hdr->vxlan_flags) & VXLAN_MAGIC) == 0) + return (EINAVL); + + *vidp = ntohl(vxlan->vxlan_id) >> VXLAN_ID_SHIFT; + + return (0); +} +.Ed +.Sh STABILITY +The contents of +.In sys/vxlan.h +are +.Sy Uncommitted . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr dladm 1M , +.Xr overlay 5 +.Rs +.%A Mahalingam, M. +.%A Dutt, D. +.%A Duda, K. +.%A Agarwal, P. +.%A Kreeger L. +.%A Sridhar, T. +.%A Bursell, M. +.%A C. Wright +.%T RFC 7348, Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN): A Framework +.%T for Overlaying Virtualized Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks +.%D August 2014 +.Re |