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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 3/3] gre: receive also TEB packets for lwtunnels
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 03:49:38 +0200
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On 04/22/16 at 07:44pm, Jiri Benc wrote:
> For ipgre interfaces in collect metadata mode, receive also traffic with
> encapsulated Ethernet headers. The lwtunnel users are supposed to sort this
> out correctly. This allows to have mixed Ethernet + L3-only traffic on the
> same lwtunnel interface.
> 
> To keep backwards compatibility and prevent any surprises, gretap interfaces
> have priority in receiving packets with Ethernet headers.

I may be missing some context. Is anyone using this already or is this
preparing the stage for another user? It's not clear to me from the
commit message.