netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4] ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.

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Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:29:49 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	maheshb@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, maze@...gle.com,
	chavey@...gle.com, thockin@...gle.com, brandon.philips@...eos.com,
	xemul@...allels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN
 driver.

From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:07:46 -0800

> This driver is very similar to the macvlan driver except that it
> uses L3 on the frame to determine the logical interface while
> functioning as packet dispatcher. It inherits L2 of the master
> device hence the packets on wire will have the same L2 for all
> the packets originating from all virtual devices off of the same
> master device.
> 
> This driver was developed keeping the namespace use-case in
> mind. Hence most of the examples given here take that as the
> base setup where main-device belongs to the default-ns and
> virtual devices are assigned to the additional namespaces.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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