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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt index 14422f8fcdc4..24196cef7c91 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The driver can be built into the kernel (CONFIG_IPVLAN=y) or as a module There are no module parameters for this driver and it can be configured using IProute2/ip utility. - ip link add link <master-dev> <slave-dev> type ipvlan mode { l2 | L3 } + ip link add link <master-dev> <slave-dev> type ipvlan mode { l2 | l3 | l3s } e.g. ip link add link ipvl0 eth0 type ipvlan mode l2 @@ -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 hence it is L3-symmetric (L3s). 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. 5. What to choose (macvlan vs. ipvlan)? These two devices are very similar in many regards and the specific use |