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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hpe.com>
To: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@bandewar.net>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next 3/3] ipvlan: Introduce l3s mode
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 15:07:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5cc5f33-9a78-cc0f-9244-9a3f7ed4876f@hpe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473458010-18571-1-git-send-email-mahesh@bandewar.net>

On 09/09/2016 02:53 PM, Mahesh Bandewar wrote:

> @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ master device for the L2 processing and routing from that instance will be
>  used before packets are queued on the outbound device. In this mode the slaves
>  will not receive nor can send multicast / broadcast traffic.
>
> +4.3 L3S mode:
> +	This is very similar to the L3 mode except that iptables conn-tracking
> +works in this mode and that is why L3-symsetric (L3s) from iptables perspective.
> +This will have slightly less performance but that shouldn't matter since you
> +are choosing this mode over plain-L3 mode to make conn-tracking work.

What is that first sentence trying to say?  It appears to be incomplete, 
and is that supposed to be "L3-symmetric?"

happy benchmarking,

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-09 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-09 21:53 [PATCH next 3/3] ipvlan: Introduce l3s mode Mahesh Bandewar
2016-09-09 22:07 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2016-09-09 22:17   ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2016-09-09 22:26 ` David Ahern
2016-09-09 22:46   ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2016-09-10 16:25     ` David Ahern
2016-09-10 18:11       ` David Miller
2016-09-10 18:48         ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)

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