From: Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:50:00 +0200
> Note: this needs net merged into net-next in order to apply. > > It's currently not easy enough to work with metadata based vxlan tunnels. In > particular, it's necessary to create separate network interfaces for IPv4 > and IPv6 tunneling. Assigning an IPv6 address to an IPv4 interface is > allowed yet won't do what's expected. With route based tunneling, one has to > pay attention to use the vxlan interface opened with the correct family. > Other users of this (openvswitch) would need to always create two vxlan > interfaces. > > Furthermore, there's no sane API for creating an IPv6 vxlan metadata based > interface. > > This patchset simplifies this by opening both IPv4 and IPv6 socket if the > vxlan interface has the metadata flag (IFLA_VXLAN_COLLECT_METADATA) set. > Assignment of addresses etc. works as expected after this. Series applied, thanks Jiri. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
