From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link: initial support for bareudp devices
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 11:11:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200706111109.5039ed3f@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3401f1acfce2f472abe6f89fe059a5fade148a3.1593630794.git.gnault@redhat.com>
On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 21:45:04 +0200
Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com> wrote:
> Bareudp devices provide a generic L3 encapsulation for tunnelling
> different protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH, etc. inside a UDP tunnel.
>
> This patch is based on original work from Martin Varghese:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1570532361-15163-1-git-send-email-martinvarghesenokia@gmail.com/
>
> Examples:
>
> - ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc
>
> This creates a bareudp tunnel device which tunnels L3 traffic with
> ethertype 0x8847 (unicast MPLS traffic). The destination port of the
> UDP header will be set to 6635. The device will listen on UDP port 6635
> to receive traffic.
>
> - ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype ipv4 multiproto
>
> Same as the MPLS example, but for IPv4. The "multiproto" keyword allows
> the device to also tunnel IPv6 traffic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Applied.
Would it be possible to add a test for this in the iproute2 testsuite?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-06 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-01 19:45 [PATCH iproute2] ip link: initial support for bareudp devices Guillaume Nault
2020-07-02 9:15 ` [PATCH iproute2] ip link: initial support for bareudp devicesy Martin Varghese
2020-07-02 9:57 ` Guillaume Nault
2020-07-03 3:10 ` Martin Varghese
2020-07-02 16:02 ` [PATCH iproute2] ip link: initial support for bareudp devices Martin Varghese
2020-07-02 17:03 ` Guillaume Nault
2020-07-02 17:11 ` Martin Varghese
2020-07-02 17:32 ` Guillaume Nault
2020-07-03 3:12 ` Martin Varghese
2020-07-06 18:11 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-07-16 17:20 ` Guillaume Nault
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