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| author | Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com> | 2020-07-20 17:46:58 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-07-21 02:57:20 +0200 |
| commit | 34b85adad831547cdd349ce9a05bbe751f9f4d46 (patch) | |
| tree | 5dbcbca2adf20af14f13955f9a709a1956473e35 /Documentation | |
| parent | mlxsw: destroy workqueue when trap_register in mlxsw_emad_init (diff) | |
| download | linux-34b85adad831547cdd349ce9a05bbe751f9f4d46.tar.xz linux-34b85adad831547cdd349ce9a05bbe751f9f4d46.zip | |
Documentation: bareudp: update iproute2 sample commands
bareudp.rst was written before iproute2 gained support for this new
type of tunnel. Therefore, the sample command lines didn't match the
final iproute2 implementation.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bareudp.rst | 19 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bareudp.rst b/Documentation/networking/bareudp.rst index 465a8b251bfe..ff406563ea88 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bareudp.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/bareudp.rst @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Usage 1) Device creation & deletion - a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype 0x8847. + a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc 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 @@ -34,14 +34,21 @@ Usage b) ip link delete bareudp0 -2) Device creation with multiple proto mode enabled +2) Device creation with multiproto mode enabled -There are two ways to create a bareudp device for MPLS & IP with multiproto mode -enabled. +The multiproto mode allows bareudp tunnels to handle several protocols of the +same family. It is currently only available for IP and MPLS. This mode has to +be enabled explicitly with the "multiproto" flag. - a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype 0x8847 multiproto + a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype ipv4 multiproto - b) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls + For an IPv4 tunnel the multiproto mode allows the tunnel to also handle + IPv6. + + b) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc multiproto + + For MPLS, the multiproto mode allows the tunnel to handle both unicast + and multicast MPLS packets. 3) Device Usage |