netdev - Re: GRE support for IPv6

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Message-ID: <20130913144630.1cb1863c@samsung-9>
Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:46:30 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	"Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@...ing.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, xeb@...l.ru
Subject: Re: GRE support for IPv6

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:01:05 +0200
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:32:53PM +0000, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> > Someone recently added the module ./net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c to the
> > kernel, but I cannot find any obvious way to configure it using
> > iproute2. Is there any userland code available for turning on
> > GRE tunnels for IPv6?
> 
> I guess it got lost somehow:
> 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/173836/
> 

The patch was submitted before the kernel code made it to Linus.
And was not resubmitted. To deal with this in later releases I started
keeping a next branch but that only started after 3.10
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