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tunnels: Update schema documentation related to tunnels.
As both OVS and tunnel protocols themselves have evolved, some changes have caused the documentation to drift from current reality. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
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<li>
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The names of interfaces implemented as Linux and BSD network
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devices, including interfaces with type <code>internal</code>,
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<code>tap</code>, or <code>system</code>, are limited to 15 bytes.
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Windows limits these names to 255 bytes.
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<code>tap</code>, or <code>system</code> plus the different types
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of tunnel ports, are limited to 15 bytes. Windows limits these
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names to 255 bytes.
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</li>
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<li>
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The names of tunnels and patch ports are not used in the underlying
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datapath, so operating system restrictions do not apply. Thus,
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they may have arbitrary length.
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The names of patch ports are not used in the underlying datapath,
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so operating system restrictions do not apply. Thus, they may have
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arbitrary length.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<dt><code>geneve</code></dt>
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An Ethernet over Geneve (<code>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nvo3-geneve-00</code>)
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An Ethernet over Geneve (<code>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nvo3-geneve</code>)
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IPv4/IPv6 tunnel.
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A description of how to match and set Geneve options can be found
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RFC 7348.
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</p>
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<p>
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Open vSwitch uses UDP destination port 4789. The source port used for
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VXLAN traffic varies on a per-flow basis and is in the ephemeral port
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range.
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Open vSwitch uses IANA-assigned UDP destination port 4789. The
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source port used for VXLAN traffic varies on a per-flow basis
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and is in the ephemeral port range.
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</p>
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</dd>
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Since the STT protocol does not engage in the usual TCP 3-way handshake,
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so it will have difficulty traversing stateful firewalls.
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The protocol is documented at
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http://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-davie-stt-06.txt
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https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davie-stt
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All traffic uses a default destination port of 7471. STT is only
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available in kernel datapath on kernel 3.5 or newer.
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All traffic uses a default destination port of 7471.
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<dt><code>patch</code></dt>

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