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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-10-05 14:23:19 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-10-05 14:23:40 +0200
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man: reword the descriptions of VXLAN DestinationPort= and PortRange=
The usual: "empty string" is meaningless in this context. We are not assigning DestinationPort="". Just say "unset". Fixes #17240.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.netdev.xml14
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.netdev.xml b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
index 863fa9108f..2bb99a1885 100644
--- a/man/systemd.netdev.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
@@ -711,20 +711,16 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>DestinationPort=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Configures the default destination UDP port on a per-device basis.
- If destination port is not specified then Linux kernel default will be used.
- Set destination port 4789 to get the IANA assigned value. If not set or if the
- destination port is assigned the empty string the default port of 4789 is used.</para>
+ <para>Configures the default destination UDP port. If the destination port is not specified then
+ Linux kernel default will be used. Set to 4789 to get the IANA assigned value.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>PortRange=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Configures VXLAN port range. VXLAN bases source
- UDP port based on flow to help the receiver to be able
- to load balance based on outer header flow. It
- restricts the port range to the normal UDP local
- ports, and allows overriding via configuration.</para>
+ <para>Configures the source port range for the VXLAN. The kernel assigns the source UDP port based
+ on the flow to help the receiver to do load balancing. When this option is not set, the normal
+ range of local UDP ports is used.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>