Mellanox WinOF VPI Documentation v5.50.52000
Linux Kernel Upstream Release Notes v6.5

VXLAN

VXLAN technology provides scalability and security challenges solutions. It requires extension of the traditional stateless offloads to avoid performance drop. ConnectX®-3 Pro adapter cards offer stateless offloads for a VXLAN packet, similar to the ones offered to non-encapsulated packets. VXLAN protocol encapsulates its packets using outer UDP header.

ConnectX®-3 Pro supports offloading of tasks related to VXLAN packet processing, such as TCP header checksum and VMQ (i.e.: directing incoming VXLAN packets to the appropriate VM queue).

Due to hardware limitation, on a dual-port adapter, VXLAN offload service cannot be provided simultaneously for both Ethernet ports if they are not using the same UDP port for VXLAN tunneling.

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