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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 12:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: liuhangbin@...il.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, jbenc@...hat.com, lucien.xin@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: add ttl inherit support
From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 21:26:21 +0800
> Like tos inherit, ttl inherit should also means inherit the inner protocol's
> ttl values, which actually not implemented in vxlan yet.
>
> But we could not treat ttl == 0 as "use the inner TTL", because that would be
> used also when the "ttl" option is not specified and that would be a behavior
> change, and breaking real use cases.
>
> So add a different attribute IFLA_VXLAN_TTL_INHERIT when "ttl inherit" is
> specified with ip cmd.
>
> Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>
> Suggested-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
The net-next tree is closed, please resubmit this when the net-next tree opens
back up.
Thank you.
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