Chelsio Communications Terminator Series Installation And User Manual page 60

Chapter II. Network (NIC/TOE)
iii. Create the VXLAN interface, assign the VNI, multicast group and the port number and bing
it up.
[root@host~]# modprobe vxlan
[root@host~]# ip link add <vxlan_interface> type vxlan id <vni> group
239.1.1.1 dev <interface> dstport 4789
[root@host~]# ifconfig <vxlan_interface> up
iv. Create the bridge interface and bring it up.
[root@host~]# brctl addbr <bridge_interface>
[root@host~]# ifconfig <bridge_interface> up
v. Add the VXLAN interface to the bridge interface.
[root@host~]# brctl addif <bridge_interface> <vxlan_interface>
vi. Tx UDP Tunnel Segmentation Offload will be enabled by default on loading the network
driver. To see the current settings,
[root@host~]# ethtool -k <interface>
...
tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: on
This feature is currently supported only on kernels 4.9.105 and 4.14.
Important
vii. For better performance, please configure the NIC settings of the
section.
Guest (VM) Configuration
i. Open the Virtual Machine Manager.
[root@host~]# virt-manager
ii. Add a Virtual Network Interface to the VM, by specifying the Bridge name configured in Step
iv. of the Host Configuration section and Device Model as virtio.
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