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Message-ID: <20150923081241.GD29680@pox.localdomain> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:12:41 +0200 From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] lwtunnel: remove source and destination UDP port config option On 09/22/15 at 06:12pm, Jiri Benc wrote: > The UDP tunnel config is asymmetric wrt. to the ports used. The source and > destination ports from one direction of the tunnel are not related to the > ports of the other direction. We need to be able to respond to ARP requests > using the correct ports without involving routing. > > As the consequence, UDP ports need to be fixed property of the tunnel > interface and cannot be set per route. Remove the ability to set ports per > route. This is still okay to do, as no kernel has been released with these > attributes yet. > > Note that the ability to specify source and destination ports is preserved > for other users of the lwtunnel API which don't use routes for tunnel key > specification (like openvswitch). > > If in the future we rework ARP handling to allow port specification, the > attributes can be added back. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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