netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] UDP tunnel encapsulation module for tunnelling different protocols like MPLS,IP,NSH etc.

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Message-ID: <20191008080628.4a40af66@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 8 Oct 2019 08:06:28 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        scott.drennan@...ia.com, jbenc@...hat.com,
        martin.varghese@...ia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] UDP tunnel encapsulation module for
 tunnelling different protocols like MPLS,IP,NSH etc.

On Tue,  8 Oct 2019 15:18:53 +0530
Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@...il.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt b/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..d2530e2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> +Bare UDP Tunnelling Module Documentation
> +========================================
> +
> +There are various L3 encapsulation standards using UDP being discussed to
> +leverage the UDP based load balancing capability of different networks.
> +MPLSoUDP (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7510)is one among them.
> +
> +The Bareudp tunnel module provides a generic L3 encapsulation tunnelling
> +support for tunnelling different L3 protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH etc. inside
> +a UDP tunnel.
> +
> +Usage
> +------
> +
> +1. Device creation & deletion
> +
> +a. ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype 0x8847
> +
> +This creates a bareudp tunnel device which tunnels L3 traffic with ethertype
> +0x8847 (MPLS traffic).The destination port of the UDP header will be set to 6635
> +The device will listen on UDP port 6635 to receive traffic.
> +
> +b. ip link delete bareudp0

Please add new documentation in the RST format if at all possible.  This
document is 95% RST already; doing the last bit of work will save somebody
else the effort of converting it in the future.

Thanks,

jon