From: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link: initial support for bareudp devices
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:20:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200716172043.GC30783@pc-2.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200706111109.5039ed3f@hermes.lan>
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 11:11:09AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 21:45:04 +0200
> Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Bareudp devices provide a generic L3 encapsulation for tunnelling
> > different protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH, etc. inside a UDP tunnel.
> >
> > This patch is based on original work from Martin Varghese:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1570532361-15163-1-git-send-email-martinvarghesenokia@gmail.com/
> >
> > Examples:
> >
> > - ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc
> >
> > This creates a bareudp tunnel device which tunnels L3 traffic with
> > ethertype 0x8847 (unicast MPLS traffic). The destination port of the
> > UDP header will be set to 6635. The device will listen on UDP port 6635
> > to receive traffic.
> >
> > - ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype ipv4 multiproto
> >
> > Same as the MPLS example, but for IPv4. The "multiproto" keyword allows
> > the device to also tunnel IPv6 traffic.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
>
> Applied.
> Would it be possible to add a test for this in the iproute2 testsuite?
No problem, I'm working on it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-16 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-01 19:45 [PATCH iproute2] ip link: initial support for bareudp devices Guillaume Nault
2020-07-02 9:15 ` [PATCH iproute2] ip link: initial support for bareudp devicesy Martin Varghese
2020-07-02 9:57 ` Guillaume Nault
2020-07-03 3:10 ` Martin Varghese
2020-07-02 16:02 ` [PATCH iproute2] ip link: initial support for bareudp devices Martin Varghese
2020-07-02 17:03 ` Guillaume Nault
2020-07-02 17:11 ` Martin Varghese
2020-07-02 17:32 ` Guillaume Nault
2020-07-03 3:12 ` Martin Varghese
2020-07-06 18:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-16 17:20 ` Guillaume Nault [this message]
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