Provided by: ifupdown-ng_0.12.1-4_amd64 
NAME
interfaces-vxlan - VXLAN extensions for the interfaces(5) file format
DESCRIPTION
Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) is an overlay network to carry Layer 2 over an IP network
while accommodating a very large number of tenants. It is defined in RFC 7348.
Be aware that VXLAN encapsulation adds 50 bytes of overhead to the IP packet header (inner
Ethernet header + VXLAN + UDP + IP). This should be taken into consideration when setting
up overlay networks, particularly on underlay networks with a conventional 1500 byte MTU.
The following options set up VXLAN Tunnel EndPoints (VTEP) interfaces with ifupdown-ng.
See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst and
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2017-vxlan-linux for more information.
VXLAN-RELATED OPTIONS
A VXLAN Virtual Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) interface must an ID set. All other options are
optional.
vxlan-id VNI ID
Denotes the VXLAN Network Identifier (VNI) ID for this interface. This parameter is
required for VTEP interfaces.
vxlan-physdev interface
Specifies the physical ("underlay") device to use for tunnel endpoint communication.
This is required for setups using multicast.
vxlan-local-ip address
Specifies the source IP address to use in outgoing packets. For compatiblity with
ifupdown2 vxlan-local-tunnelip is an alias for this parameter.
vxlan-peer-ips list of IP addresses
Specifies the unicast destination IP address(es) to use in outgoing packets when the
destination link layer address is not known in the VXLAN device forwarding database.
This option can be used to form Point-to-Point as well as Point-to-Multipoint VXLAN
tunnels/ overlays depending on how many peer IPs are given. If more than one IP
address is given a Point-to-Multipoint overlay is being set up and ingress / head-end
replication will be used by the Linux Kernel. This option cannot be used together with
vxlan-peer-group option. For compatiblity with ifupdown2 vxlan-remoteip is an alias
for this option and for compatibility with previos versions of ifupdown-ng vxlan-
remote-ip is an alias for this option, too.
vxlan-peer-group multicast group
Specifies the multicast group address to join, requires vxlan-phsydev to be set as
well. This parameter cannot be specified in combination with the vxlan-peer-ips
parameter. For compatibility with ifupdown2 vxlan-svcnodeip is an alias for this
option and for compatibility with previos version of ifupdown-ng vxlan-remote-group is
an alias, too.
vxlan-learning on/off
Specifies if unknown source link layer addresses and IP addresses are entered into the
VXLAN device forwarding database.
vxlan-ageing seconds
Specifies the lifetime in seconds of FDB entries learnt by the kernel.
vxlan-dstport port
Specifies the UDP destination port of the remote VXLAN tunnel endpoint. The default is
4789.
EXAMPLES
A VTEP with multiple peers addressed via a multicast group:
auto vx_v1001_padcty
iface vx_v1001_padcty
vxlan-id 655617
vxlan-physdev vlan1001
vxlan-remote-group 225.10.1.1
#
hwaddress f2:00:c1:01:10:01
mtu 1560
The same works just fine with IPv6 in the underlay:
auto vx_v1400_padcty
iface vx_v1400_padcty
vxlan-id 917505
vxlan-physdev vlan1400
vxlan-peer-group ff42:1400::1
#
hwaddress f2:00:0d:01:14:00
mtu 1560
Note that the underlay must have an MTU of at least 1610 to carry the encapsulated packets
of the two VTEPs above.
A VTEP with one peer (unicast point-to-point configuration):
auto vx_ptp1
iface vx_ptp1
vxlan-id 2342
vxlan-local-ip 192.0.2.42
vxlan-peer-ips 198.51.100.23
#
hwaddress f2:00:c1:01:10:01
A VTEP with multiple peers (unicast point-to-multipoint with ingress / head-end
replication):
auto vx_her
iface vx_her
vxlan-id 1337
vxlan-local-ip 2001:db8:1::1
vxlan-peer-ips 2001:db8:2::23 2001:db8:3::42 2001:db8:4::84
AUTHORS
Maximilian Wilhelm <max@sdn.clinic>
2024-03-13 interfaces-vxlan(5)