netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] vxlan: support both IPv4 and IPv6 sockets

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Date:	Sat, 26 Sep 2015 22:41:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jbenc@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] vxlan: support both IPv4 and IPv6 sockets

From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.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.
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