netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] geneve: fix ttl inherit behavior

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Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:08:36 +0200
From:   Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
To:     Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] geneve: fix ttl inherit behavior

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 03:27:37PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> Currently when we add geneve with "ttl inherit", we set ttl to 0, which
> is actually use whatever default value instead of inherit the inner
> protocol's ttl value.
> 
> To respect compatibility with old behavior and make a difference between
> ttl inherit and ttl == 0, we add an attribute IFLA_GENEVE_TTL_INHERIT in
> kernel commit 52d0d404d39dd ("geneve: add ttl inherit support").
> 
> Now let's use "ttl inherit" to inherit the inner protocol's ttl, and use
> "ttl auto" to means "use whatever default value", the same behavior with
> ttl == 0.
> 
> Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>

Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>