Re: [PATCH iproute2 0/5] iproute: Add FOU and GUE configuration in ip

Stephen Hemminger
2014-11-02T19:46:21Z

On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 08:55:13 -0700
Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> wrote:

> This patch set adds support in iproute2 to configure FOU and GUE ports
> for receive, and using FOU or GUE with ip tunnels (IPIP, GRE, sit) on
> transmit.
>
> A new ip subcommand "fou" has been added to configure FOU/GUE ports.
> For example:
>
> ip fou add port 5555 gue
> ip fou add port 9999 ipproto 4
>
> The first command creates a GUE port, the second creates a direct FOU
> port for IPIP (receive payload is a assumed to be an IP packet).
>
> To configure an IP tunnel to use FOU or GUE encap parameters have
> been added. For example:
>
> ip link add name tun1 type ipip remote 192.168.1.1 local 192.168.1.2 \
> ttl 225 encap gue encap-sport auto encap-dport 7777 encap-csum
> ip link add name tun2 type gre remote 192.168.1.1 local 192.168.1.2 \
> ttl 225 encap fou encap-sport auto encap-dport 8888 encap-csum
>
> The first command configures an IPIP tunnel to use GUE on transmit. The
> peer might be configured to receive GUE packets with the
> "ip fou add port 7777 gue" command.
>
> The second configures a GRE tunnel to use FOU encapsulation. The
> peer might be configured to receive these packets with the
> "ip fou add port 8888 ipproto 47" command.
>
> Tom Herbert (5):
> iplink: Fix setting of -1 as ifindex
> ip fou: Support to configure foo-over-udp RX
> ip tunnel: Kernel uapi definitions for fou and gue
> ip link ipip: Add support to configure FOU and GUE
> ip link gre: Add support to configure FOU and GUE
>
> include/linux/fou.h | 41 ++++++++++++
> include/linux/if_tunnel.h | 17 +++++
> ip/Makefile | 3 +-
> ip/ip.c | 3 +-
> ip/ip_common.h | 1 +
> ip/ipfou.c | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> ip/iplink.c | 2 +-
> ip/link_gre.c | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> ip/link_iptnl.c | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 9 files changed, 400 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/linux/fou.h
> create mode 100644 ip/ipfou.c

Please resubmit this patch series.
1. It no longer applies cleanly
2. Address the comments about port number and -1 ifindex patch
3. Add man pages