From: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] selftests: forwarding: Test redirecting gre or ipip packets to Ethernet
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 17:42:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210707154223.GA12339@pc-32.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f017bb67-73ff-7745-0da5-b267fe0f0501@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 09:05:24AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 7/6/21 1:02 PM, Guillaume Nault wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 09:38:44AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> >> On 7/1/21 8:59 AM, Guillaume Nault wrote:
> >>> I first tried to write this selftest using VRFs, but there were some
> >>> problems that made me switch to namespaces (I don't remember precisely
> >>> which ones, probably virtual tunnel devices in collect_md mode).
> >>
> >> if you hit a problem with the test not working, send me the test script
> >> and I will take a look.
> >
> > So I've looked again at what it'd take to make a VRF-based selftest.
> > The problem is that we currently can't create collect_md tunnel
> > interfaces in different VRFs, if the VRFs are part of the same netns.
> >
> > Most tunnels explicitely refuse to create a collect_md device if
> > another one already exists in the netns, no matter the rest of the
> > tunnel parameters. This is the behaviour of ip_gre, ipip, ip6_gre and
> > ip6_tunnel.
> >
> > Then there's sit, which allows the creation of the second collect_md
> > device in the other VRF. However, iproute2 doesn't set the
> > IFLA_IPTUN_LINK attribute when it creates an external device, so it
> > can't set up such a configuration.
> >
> > Bareudp simply doesn't support VRF.
> >
> > Finally, vxlan allows devices with different IFLA_VXLAN_LINK attributes
> > to be created, but only when VXLAN_F_IPV6_LINKLOCAL is set. Removing
> > the VXLAN_F_IPV6_LINKLOCAL test at the end of vxlan_config_validate()
> > is enough to make two VXLAN-GPE devices work in a multi-VRF setup:
>
> Thanks for the details. In short, some work is needed to extend VRF
> support to these tunnels. That is worth doing if you have the time.
I probably won't have the time in the immediate future, but I've added
this work to my todo list. Meanwhile, I'll move the selftests to net/
and repost when net-next reopens.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-07 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-30 12:51 [PATCH net-next 0/4] selftests: forwarding: Tests redirects between L3 and L2 devices Guillaume Nault
2021-06-30 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] selftests: forwarding: Test redirecting gre or ipip packets to Ethernet Guillaume Nault
2021-07-01 5:46 ` Ido Schimmel
2021-07-01 14:59 ` Guillaume Nault
2021-07-01 15:38 ` David Ahern
2021-07-01 16:59 ` Guillaume Nault
2021-07-06 19:02 ` Guillaume Nault
2021-07-07 15:05 ` David Ahern
2021-07-07 15:42 ` Guillaume Nault [this message]
2021-07-08 1:50 ` David Ahern
2021-07-09 16:21 ` Guillaume Nault
2021-06-30 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] selftests: forwarding: Test redirecting sit " Guillaume Nault
2021-06-30 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] selftests: forwarding: Test redirecting ip6gre and ip6tnl " Guillaume Nault
2021-06-30 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] selftests: forwarding: Test redirecting vxlan and bareudp " Guillaume Nault
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