netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] ipip: advertise tunnel param via rtnl

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Message-ID: <1352479020.19779.741.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:37:00 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] ipip: advertise tunnel param via rtnl

On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 17:09 +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> It is usefull for daemons that monitor link event to have the full parameters of
> these interfaces when a rtnl message is sent.
> It allows also to dump them via rtnetlink.
> 
> It is based on what is done for GRE tunnels.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> ---

Nice !

Note this also adds support for link creation.

Do you plan to add iproute2 support for :

ip link add ipip1 type ipip remote 10.246.8.36

Thanks

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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