netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 iproute2 net-next] erspan: add erspan version II support

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Message-ID: <b280f302-d642-1801-d742-08488a16059d@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Dec 2017 16:44:38 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 iproute2 net-next] erspan: add erspan version II
 support

On 12/20/17 4:49 PM, William Tu wrote:
> The patch adds support for configuring the erspan v2, for both
> ipv4 and ipv6 erspan implementation.  Three additional fields
> are added: 'erspan_ver' for distinguishing v1 or v2, 'erspan_dir'
> for specifying direction of the mirrored traffic, and 'erspan_hwid'
> for users to set ERSPAN engine ID within a system.
> 
> As for manpage, the ERSPAN descriptions used to be under GRE, IPIP,
> SIT Type paragraph.  Since IP6GRE/IP6GRETAP also supports ERSPAN,
> the patch removes the old one, creates a separate ERSPAN paragrah,
> and adds an example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
> ---
> change in v5:
>   - update the "Usage: " in c file, so
>     # ip link help erspan
>     shows the new options

Since v4 was already applied to the new iproute2 net-next tree, please
send an update against it. Thanks,