From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: David Lebrun <david.lebrun@uclouvain.be>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/9] ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of SR-IPv6
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:31:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57C4554F.9000905@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1472226767-9904-3-git-send-email-david.lebrun@uclouvain.be>
On 8/26/16, 8:52 AM, David Lebrun wrote:
> This patch adds the necessary hooks and structures to provide support
> for SR-IPv6 control plane, essentially the Generic Netlink commands
> that will be used for userspace control over the Segment Routing
> kernel structures.
>
> The genetlink commands provide control over two different structures:
> tunnel source and HMAC data. The tunnel source is the source address
> that will be used by default when encapsulating packets into an
> outer IPv6 header + SRH. If the tunnel source is set to :: then an
> address of the outgoing interface will be selected as the source.
>
> The HMAC commands currently just return ENOTSUPP and will be implemented
> in a future patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Lebrun <david.lebrun@uclouvain.be>
>
This looks fine. But, i am just trying to see if this can be rtnetlink.
Have you considered it already ?.
We would like to keep the API consistent or abstracted to accommodate SR-MPLS in the
future too. so, any abstraction there will help.
what is your control-plane software using this ?
quagga or any-other routing daemon ?
Thanks,
Roopa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-29 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-26 15:52 [RFC 0/9] add support for IPv6 Segment Routing David Lebrun
2016-08-26 15:52 ` [RFC 1/9] ipv6: implement dataplane support for rthdr type 4 (Segment Routing Header) David Lebrun
2016-08-31 14:51 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-09-01 13:11 ` David Lebrun
2016-09-01 13:58 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-08-31 17:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-08-26 15:52 ` [RFC 2/9] ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of SR-IPv6 David Lebrun
2016-08-29 15:31 ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]
2016-08-31 14:57 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-09-01 13:21 ` David Lebrun
2016-09-05 10:05 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-08-31 14:59 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-08-31 17:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-01 13:25 ` David Lebrun
2016-09-01 17:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-08-31 17:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-08-31 17:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-08-26 15:52 ` [RFC 3/9] ipv6: route: export symbol ip6_route_input David Lebrun
2016-08-26 15:52 ` [RFC 4/9] ipv6: sr: add support for SRH encapsulation and injection with lwtunnels David Lebrun
2016-08-29 14:52 ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-09-01 13:32 ` David Lebrun
2016-08-26 15:54 ` [RFC 5/9] ipv6: sr: add core files for SR HMAC support David Lebrun
2016-08-26 15:54 ` [RFC 6/9] ipv6: sr: implement API to control SR HMAC structures David Lebrun
2016-08-26 15:54 ` [RFC 7/9] ipv6: sr: add calls to verify and insert HMAC signatures David Lebrun
2016-08-26 15:54 ` [RFC 8/9] ipv6: add source address argument for ipv6_push_nfrag_opts David Lebrun
2016-08-26 15:54 ` [RFC 9/9] ipv6: sr: add support for SRH injection through setsockopt David Lebrun
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