Hi Stephen,
The patch's subject contains fix. But the kernel feature is applied on net-next.
So I'm not sure if iproute2 net-next is suitable. If you are OK with the patch,
please feel free to apply it on the branch which you think is suitable.
Thanks
Hangbin
On 18 April 2018 at 13:05, Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Like kernel net-next commit 72f6d71e491e6 ("vxlan: add ttl inherit support"),
> vxlan ttl inherit should means inherit the inner protocol's ttl value.
>
> But currently when we add vxlan with "ttl inherit", we only set ttl 0,
> which is actually use whatever default value instead of inherit the inner
> protocol's ttl value.
>
> To make a difference with ttl inherit and ttl == 0, we add an attribute
> IFLA_VXLAN_TTL_INHERIT when "ttl inherit" specified. And use "ttl auto"
> to means "use whatever default value", the same behavior with ttl == 0.
>
> Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <ji...@redhat.com>
> Suggested-by: Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com>
