From owner-svn-src-stable@freebsd.org Sun Oct 28 07:50:16 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E6810EB0B2; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vmaffione@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org (mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D03074437; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vmaffione@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B0111C7B3; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vmaffione@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w9S7oGvB078162; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:50:16 GMT (envelope-from vmaffione@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from vmaffione@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w9S7oGh0078161; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:50:16 GMT (envelope-from vmaffione@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201810280750.w9S7oGh0078161@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: vmaffione set sender to vmaffione@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Vincenzo Maffione Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:50:15 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r339839 - stable/12/share/man/man4 X-SVN-Group: stable-12 X-SVN-Commit-Author: vmaffione X-SVN-Commit-Paths: stable/12/share/man/man4 X-SVN-Commit-Revision: 339839 X-SVN-Commit-Repository: base MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for all the -stable branches of the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:50:17 -0000 Author: vmaffione Date: Sun Oct 28 07:50:15 2018 New Revision: 339839 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/339839 Log: MFC r339548: man: fix vale(4) port naming The current documentation describing the syntax of a VALE port is wrong. This patch fixes it to make it consistent. Approved by: re (gjb) Modified: stable/12/share/man/man4/vale.4 Directory Properties: stable/12/ (props changed) Modified: stable/12/share/man/man4/vale.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/12/share/man/man4/vale.4 Sun Oct 28 05:50:04 2018 (r339838) +++ stable/12/share/man/man4/vale.4 Sun Oct 28 07:50:15 2018 (r339839) @@ -59,18 +59,18 @@ API. .Pp .Nm ports are named -.Pa vale[bdg:][port] +.Pa valeSSS:PPP where .Pa vale is the prefix indicating a VALE switch rather than a standard interface, -.Pa bdg +.Pa SSS indicates a specific switch (the colon is a separator), and -.Pa port +.Pa PPP indicates a port within the switch. -Bridge and port names are arbitrary strings, the only -constraint being that the full name must fit within 16 -characters. +Both SSS and PPP have the form [0-9a-zA-Z_]+ , the string cannot +exceed IFNAMSIZ characters, and PPP cannot be the name of any +existing OS network interface. .Pp See .Xr netmap 4 @@ -97,22 +97,20 @@ Set to non-zero values to enable in-kernel diagnostics Create one switch, with a traffic generator connected to one port, and a netmap-enabled tcpdump instance on another port: .Bd -literal -offset indent -tcpdump -ni vale-a:1 & -pkt-gen -i vale-a:0 -f tx & +tcpdump -ni valea:1 & +pkt-gen -i valea:0 -f tx & .Ed .Pp Create two switches, each connected to two qemu machines on different ports. .Bd -literal -offset indent -qemu -net nic -net netmap,ifname=vale-1:a ... & -qemu -net nic -net netmap,ifname=vale-1:b ... & -qemu -net nic -net netmap,ifname=vale-2:c ... & -qemu -net nic -net netmap,ifname=vale-2:d ... & +qemu -net nic -net netmap,ifname=vale1:a ... & +qemu -net nic -net netmap,ifname=vale1:b ... & +qemu -net nic -net netmap,ifname=vale2:c ... & +qemu -net nic -net netmap,ifname=vale2:d ... & .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr netmap 4 -.Pp -.Xr http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/vale/ .Pp Luigi Rizzo, Giuseppe Lettieri: VALE, a switched ethernet for virtual machines, June 2012, http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/vale/