From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] ipip: advertise tunnel param via rtnl
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:00:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509D36CB.9030509@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1352479020.19779.741.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Le 09/11/2012 17:37, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 17:09 +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> It is usefull for daemons that monitor link event to have the full parameters of
>> these interfaces when a rtnl message is sent.
>> It allows also to dump them via rtnetlink.
>>
>> It is based on what is done for GRE tunnels.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
>> ---
>
> Nice !
>
> Note this also adds support for link creation.
>
> Do you plan to add iproute2 support for :
>
> ip link add ipip1 type ipip remote 10.246.8.36
>
> Thanks
>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
If the principle is approved, yes. If we add it, we will have two
ways to manage these tunnels, via netlink and via ioctl, is it ok?
A side effect could be to have an option or an argument to the module to not
create the control interface (tunl0, sit0, ...).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-09 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-09 9:51 [PATCH net-next 0/4] Advertise tunnel parameters via netlink Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-09 9:51 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] ipip: advertise tunnel param via rtnl Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-09 13:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-09 16:09 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] Advertise tunnel parameters via netlink Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-09 16:09 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] ipip: advertise tunnel param via rtnl Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-09 16:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-09 17:00 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2012-11-09 19:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-09 16:10 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] sit: " Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-09 16:10 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] ip6tnl: " Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-10 0:36 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] Advertise tunnel parameters via netlink David Miller
2012-11-09 9:51 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] sit: advertise tunnel param via rtnl Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-09 9:51 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] ip6tnl: " Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-09 9:51 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] gre6: fix rtnl dump messages Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-09 13:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-09 15:34 ` [PATCH] " Nicolas Dichtel
2012-11-09 16:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-09 22:11 ` David Miller
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