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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 4/4] vxlan: do not receive IPv4 packets on IPv6 socket
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:39:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150828223929.GC32001@pox.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <823880925bf39790189708fcb7f7158f21231237.1440787601.git.jbenc@redhat.com>

On 08/28/15 at 08:48pm, Jiri Benc wrote:
> By default (subject to the sysctl settings), IPv6 sockets listen also for
> IPv4 traffic. Vxlan is not prepared for that and expects IPv6 header in
> packets received through an IPv6 socket.
> 
> In addition, it's currently not possible to have both IPv4 and IPv6 vxlan
> tunnel on the same port (unless bindv6only sysctl is enabled), as it's not
> possible to create and bind both IPv4 and IPv6 vxlan interfaces and there's
> no way to specify both IPv4 and IPv6 remote/group IP addresses.
> 
> Set IPV6_V6ONLY on vxlan sockets to fix both of these issues. This is not
> done globally in udp_tunnel, as l2tp and tipc seems to work okay when
> receiving IPv4 packets on IPv6 socket and people may rely on this behavior.
> The other tunnels (geneve and fou) do not support IPv6.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>

Can we fix VXLAN instead? It should be possible to receive and send both
v4 and v6 frames and represent it with metadata on a single socket.

Maybe set the flag if IFLA_VXLAN_COLLECT_METADATA is not set?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-28 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-28 18:48 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] tunnels: fix incorrect IPv4/v6 headers interpretation Jiri Benc
2015-08-28 18:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/4] ip_tunnels: convert the mode field of ip_tunnel_info to flags Jiri Benc
2015-08-28 22:15   ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-28 22:55   ` Pravin Shelar
2015-08-28 18:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/4] ip_tunnels: record IP version in tunnel info Jiri Benc
2015-08-28 22:24   ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-29  8:43     ` Jiri Benc
2015-08-28 22:55   ` Pravin Shelar
2015-08-28 18:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/4] fou: reject IPv6 config Jiri Benc
2015-08-28 18:48 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/4] vxlan: do not receive IPv4 packets on IPv6 socket Jiri Benc
2015-08-28 22:39   ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2015-08-29  8:55     ` Jiri Benc
2015-08-30  9:30       ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] tunnels: fix incorrect IPv4/v6 headers interpretation David Miller

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