linux-kernel - Re: How to identify different ip tunnels

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:54:48 +0800
From:	zhuyj <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	zhuyj <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
Subject: Re: How to identify different ip tunnels

The version of the kernel is 3.4.43.

Any reply is appreciated.

Best Regards!
Zhu Yanjun
On 01/23/2014 03:33 PM, zhuyj wrote:
> Hi, Maintainers
>
> We want to identify different ip tunnels.
>
> For example, we use “ip tunnel add xxx” command in linux to create an 
> ipv4/6 tunnel interface,then,we can receive a RTM_NEWLINK message from 
> linux for the new tunnel interface.
> We will parse the struct ifinfomsg message and get the ifi->ifi_type 
> attribute. We need to do somethings depend on the tunnel type here.
> I checked the linux source code and list all the tunnel types here:
>
> #define ARPHRD_TUNNEL 768 /* IPIP tunnel */
> #define ARPHRD_TUNNEL6 769 /* IP6IP6 tunnel */
> #define ARPHRD_SIT 776 /* sit0 device - IPv6-in-IPv4 */
> #define ARPHRD_IPGRE 778 /* GRE over IP */
>
> It means that the linux will report the new link for any ipv4/6 tunnel 
> interface with type only within these four types. However, We need 
> more tunnel types for ipv4/6 tunnel.
> For example, 4IN4/6IN4/6TO4/GRE/ISATAP for ipv4 tunnel and 
> 4IN6/6IN6/IPIN6 for ipv6 tunnel.
>
> Here are the result that we have got:
>
> Actual Tunnel type ifi->ifi_type
> 4IN4 768
> GRE4 778
> 6IN4/6TO4/ISATAP 776
> 4IN6/6IN6/IPIN6 769
>
> So, we can NOT distinguish the actual tunnel type via ifi_type 
> attribute except the GRE4 and 4IN4 tunnel. However we need the actual 
> type. That is our question.
>
> BTW, for the 6IN4 and 6TO4 tunnel, Can we distinguish them before the 
> interface ip address configured? Because we need to do different 
> things for them when we received the new link message and the tunnel 
> has NOT any ip address in this time.
>
> Best Regards!
> Zhu Yanjun
>

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