From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: GRE support for IPv6 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:46:30 -0700 Message-ID: <20130913144630.1cb1863c@samsung-9> References: <20130913164404.GA32431@order.stressinduktion.org> <2134F8430051B64F815C691A62D98318108CA3@XCH-BLV-504.nw.nos.boeing.com> <20130913210105.GD32431@order.stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Templin, Fred L" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , xeb@mail.ru To: Hannes Frederic Sowa Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.220.42]:47936 "EHLO mail-pa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755728Ab3IMVqe (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:46:34 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id lj1so3049882pab.15 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:46:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130913210105.GD32431@order.stressinduktion.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:01:05 +0200 Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:32:53PM +0000, Templin, Fred L wrote: > > Someone recently added the module ./net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c to the > > kernel, but I cannot find any obvious way to configure it using > > iproute2. Is there any userland code available for turning on > > GRE tunnels for IPv6? > > I guess it got lost somehow: > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/173836/ > The patch was submitted before the kernel code made it to Linus. And was not resubmitted. To deal with this in later releases I started keeping a next branch but that only started after 3.10