netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mpls: Enforce payload type of traffic sent using explicit NULL

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Date:	Sun, 09 Aug 2015 22:51:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rshearma@...cade.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, tgraf@...g.ch,
	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mpls: Enforce payload type of traffic sent
 using explicit NULL

From: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 11:04:56 +0100

> RFC 4182 s2 states that if an IPv4 Explicit NULL label is the only
> label on the stack, then after popping the resulting packet must be
> treated as a IPv4 packet and forwarded based on the IPv4 header. The
> same is true for IPv6 Explicit NULL with an IPv6 packet following.
> 
> Therefore, when installing the IPv4/IPv6 Explicit NULL label routes,
> add an attribute that specifies the expected payload type for use at
> forwarding time for determining the type of the encapsulated packet
> instead of inspecting the first nibble of the packet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>

Applied, thanks.
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