From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jesse@nicira.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, pshelar@nicira.com,
therbert@google.com, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com,
nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
dev@openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 net-next v4] VXLAN Group Policy Extension
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:57:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150114205746.GE2105@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150114.153744.360580056667123059.davem@davemloft.net>
On 01/14/15 at 03:37pm, David Miller wrote:
> From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:20:41 +0100
>
> > Implements supports for the Group Policy VXLAN extension [0] to provide
> > a lightweight and simple security label mechanism across network peers
> > based on VXLAN. The security context and associated metadata is mapped
> > to/from skb->mark. This allows further mapping to a SELinux context
> > using SECMARK, to implement ACLs directly with nftables, iptables, OVS,
> > tc, etc.
> >
> > The extension is disabled by default and should be run on a distinct
> > port in mixed Linux VXLAN VTEP environments. Liberal VXLAN VTEPs
> > which ignore unknown reserved bits will be able to receive VXLAN-GBP
> > frames.
>
> Thomas, unfortunately Tom's vxlan RCO patches were ready before your's
> in my queue so I applied his work first. You'll have to therefore
> respin this series on top of it.
Sure, no problem.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-14 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-13 16:20 [PATCH 0/5 net-next v4] VXLAN Group Policy Extension Thomas Graf
2015-01-13 16:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] vxlan: Group Policy extension Thomas Graf
2015-01-13 16:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] vxlan: Only bind to sockets with correct extensions enabled Thomas Graf
2015-01-13 16:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] openvswitch: Rename GENEVE_TUN_OPTS() to TUN_METADATA_OPTS() Thomas Graf
2015-01-13 16:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] openvswitch: Allow for any level of nesting in flow attributes Thomas Graf
2015-01-13 16:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] openvswitch: Support VXLAN Group Policy extension Thomas Graf
2015-01-14 20:37 ` [PATCH 0/5 net-next v4] VXLAN Group Policy Extension David Miller
2015-01-14 20:57 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
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