From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alan@al-an.info
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ip6_tunnel: allow to change mode for the ip6tnl0
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:09:36 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141030.160936.373944710383391596.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414569292-15384-1-git-send-email-alan@al-an.info>
From: "Alexey Andriyanov" <alan@al-an.info>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:54:52 +0300
> The fallback device is in ipv6 mode by default.
> The mode can not be changed in runtime, so there
> is no way to decapsulate ip4in6 packets coming from
> various sources without creating the specific tunnel
> ifaces for each peer.
>
> This allows to update the fallback tunnel device, but only
> the mode could be changed. Usual command should work for the
> fallback device: `ip -6 tun change ip6tnl0 mode any`
>
> The fallback device can not be hidden from the packet receiver
> as a regular tunnel, but there is no need for synchronization
> as long as we do single assignment.
>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Andriyanov <alan@al-an.info>
Applied to net-next, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-30 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-29 6:24 [PATCH] ip6_tunnel: allow to change mode for the ip6tnl0 Alexey Andriyanov
2014-10-29 6:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-29 7:46 ` Alexey Andriyanov
2014-10-29 7:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Alexey Andriyanov
2014-10-30 20:09 ` David Miller [this message]
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