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Message-ID: <20151017074531.GA13981@pox.localdomain>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:45:31 +0200
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
John Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tunnels: Don't require remote endpoint or ID during
creation.
On 10/16/15 at 04:36pm, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Before lightweight tunnels existed, it really didn't make sense to
> create a tunnel that was not fully specified, such as without a
> destination IP address - the resulting packets would go nowhere.
> However, with lightweight tunnels, the opposite is true - it doesn't
> make sense to require this information when it will be provided later
> on by the route. This loosens the requirements for this information.
>
> An alternative would be to allow the relaxed version only when
> COLLECT_METADATA is enabled. However, since there are several
> variations on this theme (such as NBMA tunnels in GRE), just dropping
> the restrictions seems the most consistent across tunnels and with
> the existing configuration.
>
> CC: John Linville <linville@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
I left it like it was for VXLAN with the thought that you had
specifically enable the metadata driven TX but I'm perfectly
fine with this as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
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