From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
scott.drennan@nokia.com, jbenc@redhat.com,
martin.varghese@nokia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] UDP tunnel encapsulation module for tunnelling different protocols like MPLS,IP,NSH etc.
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 08:06:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191008080628.4a40af66@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5979d1bf0b5521c66f2f6fa31b7e1cbdddd8cea8.1570455278.git.martinvarghesenokia@gmail.com>
On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 15:18:53 +0530
Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@gmail.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt b/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..d2530e2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> +Bare UDP Tunnelling Module Documentation
> +========================================
> +
> +There are various L3 encapsulation standards using UDP being discussed to
> +leverage the UDP based load balancing capability of different networks.
> +MPLSoUDP (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7510)is one among them.
> +
> +The Bareudp tunnel module provides a generic L3 encapsulation tunnelling
> +support for tunnelling different L3 protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH etc. inside
> +a UDP tunnel.
> +
> +Usage
> +------
> +
> +1. Device creation & deletion
> +
> +a. ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype 0x8847
> +
> +This creates a bareudp tunnel device which tunnels L3 traffic with ethertype
> +0x8847 (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.
> +
> +b. ip link delete bareudp0
Please add new documentation in the RST format if at all possible. This
document is 95% RST already; doing the last bit of work will save somebody
else the effort of converting it in the future.
Thanks,
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-08 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-08 9:48 [PATCH net-next 0/2] Bareudp Tunnel Module Martin Varghese
2019-10-08 9:48 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] UDP tunnel encapsulation module for tunnelling different protocols like MPLS,IP,NSH etc Martin Varghese
2019-10-08 14:06 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2019-10-08 14:57 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-08 16:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-10-08 16:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-10-08 16:28 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-10-09 12:48 ` Martin Varghese
2019-10-09 14:58 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-10-09 15:21 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-10-09 15:42 ` Jiri Benc
2019-10-09 16:15 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-10-18 20:03 ` Tom Herbert
2019-10-21 17:18 ` Jiri Benc
2019-10-17 13:20 ` Martin Varghese
2019-10-17 20:48 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-10-18 8:20 ` Martin Varghese
2019-10-18 14:59 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-10-23 2:40 ` Martin Varghese
2019-11-07 13:38 ` Martin Varghese
2019-11-07 15:53 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-11-07 16:12 ` Martin Varghese
2019-11-07 16:35 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-11-07 17:31 ` Jiri Benc
2019-11-07 18:59 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-11-07 19:05 ` Jiri Benc
2019-11-07 19:13 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-11-11 16:02 ` Martin Varghese
2019-11-11 21:45 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-11-14 13:17 ` Martin Varghese
2019-10-08 9:49 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] Special handling for IP & MPLS Martin Varghese
2019-10-08 14:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-08 16:09 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-10-09 13:38 ` Martin Varghese
2019-10-09 15:06 ` Willem de Bruijn
2019-10-09 15:19 ` Willem de Bruijn
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