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* [PATCH net-next 0/8] Basic MPLS support
@ 2015-02-25 17:09 Eric W. Biederman
  2015-02-25 17:13 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] mpls: Refactor how the mpls module is built Eric W. Biederman
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From: Eric W. Biederman @ 2015-02-25 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev, roopa, Stephen Hemminger, santiago


While trying to figure out what MPLS is and why MPLS support is not in
the kernel on a lark I sat down and wrote an MPLS implemenation, so I
could answer those questions for myself.

>From what I can tell the short answer is MPLS is trivial-simple and the
we don't have an in-kernel implementation because no one has sat down
and done the work to have a good mergable implementation.

MPLS has it's good sides and it's bad sides but at the end of the day
MPLS has users, and having an in-kernel implementation should help us
understand MPLS and focus our conversations dealing with MPLS and
VRFs.

Having MPLS in our toolkit as the entire world begins playing with
overlay networks aka ``network virtualization'' to support VM and
container migration seems appropriate as MPLS is the historical solution
to this problem.

Constructive criticism about the netlink interface is especially
appreciated.  Hopefully we can have at least one protocol in the kernel
where the netlink interface doesn't have nasty corner case.

As for linux users.  The conversations I had at netdev01 this sounds
like a case of if I build it people will use the code.

Eric

Eric W. Biederman (8):
      mpls: Refactor how the mpls module is built
      mpls: Basic routing support
      mpls: Add a sysctl to control the size of the mpls label table
      mpls: Basic support for adding and removing routes
      mpls: Functions for reading and wrinting mpls labels over netlink
      mpls: Netlink commands to add, remove, and dump routes
      mpls: Multicast route table change notifications
      ipmpls: Basic device for injecting packets into an mpls tunnel

 Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt |  20 +
 include/linux/socket.h                   |   2 +
 include/net/net_namespace.h              |   4 +
 include/net/netns/mpls.h                 |  17 +
 include/uapi/linux/if_arp.h              |   1 +
 include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h           |   4 +
 net/Makefile                             |   2 +-
 net/mpls/Kconfig                         |  28 +-
 net/mpls/Makefile                        |   2 +
 net/mpls/af_mpls.c                       | 919 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/mpls/internal.h                      |  59 ++
 net/mpls/ipmpls.c                        | 219 ++++++++
 12 files changed, 1275 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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2015-02-25 17:09 [PATCH net-next 0/8] Basic MPLS support Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:13 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] mpls: Refactor how the mpls module is built Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26  2:05   ` Simon Horman
2015-02-26  2:15     ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26  2:28       ` Simon Horman
2015-02-25 17:14 ` [PATCH net-next 2/8] mpls: Basic routing support Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:15 ` [PATCH net-next 3/8] mpls: Add a sysctl to control the size of the mpls label table Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:16 ` [PATCH net-next 4/8] mpls: Basic support for adding and removing routes Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:16 ` [PATCH net-next 5/8] mpls: Functions for reading and wrinting mpls labels over netlink Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:17 ` [PATCH net-next 6/8] mpls: Netlink commands to add, remove, and dump routes Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:18 ` [PATCH net-next 8/8] ipmpls: Basic device for injecting packets into an mpls tunnel Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05  9:17   ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-05 14:00     ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 16:25       ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-05 19:52         ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-06  6:05           ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-07 10:36           ` Robert Shearman
2015-03-07 21:12             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:19 ` [PATCH net-next 7/8] mpls: Multicast route table change notifications Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26  7:21   ` roopa
2015-02-26 14:03     ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26 15:12       ` roopa
2015-03-05  1:56         ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-02-25 17:37 ` [PATCH iproute2] mpls: Add basic mpls support to iproute Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26  6:58 ` [PATCH net-next 0/8] Basic MPLS support roopa
2015-02-27 21:21 ` David Miller
2015-02-28  0:58   ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  0:05     ` Shrijeet Mukherjee
2015-03-02  4:03     ` David Miller
2015-03-02  5:10       ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  5:53         ` David Miller
2015-03-02  5:59         ` [PATCH net-next 0/15] Neighbour table and ax25 cleanups Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  5:59           ` [PATCH net-next 01/15] ax25: In ax25_rebuild_header add missing kfree_skb Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:01           ` [PATCH net-next 02/15] rose: Set the destination address in rose_header Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:02           ` [PATCH net-next 03/15] rose: Transmit packets in rose_xmit not rose_rebuild_header Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:03           ` [PATCH net-next 04/15] ax25/kiss: Replace ax_header_ops with ax25_header_ops Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:03           ` [PATCH net-next 05/15] ax25/6pack: Replace sp_header_ops " Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:04           ` [PATCH net-next 06/15] ax25: Make ax25_header and ax25_rebuild_header static Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:05           ` [PATCH net-next 07/15] ax25: Refactor to use private neighbour operations Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:06           ` [PATCH net-next 08/15] arp: Remove special case to give AX25 it's open arp operations Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:07           ` [PATCH net-next 09/15] neigh: Move neigh_compat_output into ax25_ip.c Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:08           ` [PATCH net-next 10/15] ax25: Stop calling/abusing dev_rebuild_header Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:09           ` [PATCH net-next 11/15] ax25: Stop depending on arp_find Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:11           ` [PATCH net-next 12/15] net: Kill dev_rebuild_header Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:12           ` [PATCH net-next 13/15] arp: Kill arp_find Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:13           ` [PATCH net-next 14/15] neigh: Don't require dst in neigh_hh_init Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02  6:14           ` [PATCH net-next 15/15] neigh: Don't require a dst in neigh_resolve_output Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 21:44           ` [PATCH net-next 0/15] Neighbour table and ax25 cleanups David Miller
2015-03-03 15:41             ` [PATCH net-next] ax25: Stop using magic neighbour cache operations Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-03 19:45               ` David Miller
2015-03-03 20:22                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-03 20:33                   ` David Miller
2015-03-03 23:09                     ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] Neighbour table prep for MPLS Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-03 23:10                       ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] neigh: Factor out ___neigh_lookup_noref Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 14:53                         ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-04 15:58                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 16:30                             ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-03 23:11                       ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] neigh: Add helper function neigh_xmit Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04  1:06                       ` [PATCH net-next 0/7] Basic MPLS support take 2 Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04  1:10                         ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] mpls: Refactor how the mpls module is built Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04  1:10                         ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] mpls: Basic routing support Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 16:36                           ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-05 18:42                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04  1:11                         ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] mpls: Add a sysctl to control the size of the mpls label table Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05  9:45                           ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-05 13:22                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 14:38                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 16:49                                 ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-04  1:12                         ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] mpls: Basic support for adding and removing routes Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04  8:13                           ` roopa
2015-03-04 20:36                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05  0:30                               ` roopa
2015-03-05  2:50                               ` Bill Fink
2015-03-05 11:54                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 19:10                                   ` Bill Fink
2015-03-04  1:13                         ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] mpls: Functions for reading and wrinting mpls labels over netlink Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04  1:13                         ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] mpls: Netlink commands to add, remove, and dump routes Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04  1:14                         ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] mpls: Multicast route table change notifications Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04  5:27                         ` [PATCH net-next 0/7] Basic MPLS support take 2 David Miller
2015-03-04  6:13                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04  5:25                       ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] Neighbour table prep for MPLS David Miller
2015-03-04  5:53                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 14:56                           ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-04 21:04                           ` David Miller
2015-03-05 12:35                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 10:14                   ` [PATCH net-next] ax25: Stop using magic neighbour cache operations Steven Whitehouse
2015-03-06 20:44                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-14  0:33                       ` Steven Whitehouse

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