netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] Special handling for IP & MPLS.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 8 Oct 2019 07:58:10 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, corbet@....net,
        scott.drennan@...ia.com, jbenc@...hat.com,
        martin.varghese@...ia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] Special handling for IP & MPLS.

On 10/8/19 2:49 AM, Martin Varghese wrote:
> From: Martin <martin.varghese@...ia.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@...il.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <martinvarghesenokia@...il.com>

drop one of those.

> ---
>  Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt | 18 ++++++++
>  drivers/net/bareudp.c                | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/net/bareudp.h                |  1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/if_link.h         |  1 +
>  4 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt b/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt
> index d2530e2..4de1022 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/bareudp.txt
> @@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ 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.
>  
> +Special Handling
> +----------------
> +The bareudp device supports special handling for MPLS & IP as they can have
> +multiple ethertypes.
> +MPLS procotcol can have ethertypes 0x8847 (unicast) & 0x8847 (multicast).

                                                         0x8848

> +IP proctocol can have ethertypes 0x0800 (v4) & 0x866 (v6).
> +This special handling can be enabled only for ethertype 0x0800 & 0x88847 with a
> +flag called extended mode.
> +
>  Usage
>  ------
>  
> @@ -21,3 +30,12 @@ This creates a bareudp tunnel device which tunnels L3 traffic with ethertype
>  The device will listen on UDP port 6635 to receive traffic.
>  
>  b. ip link delete bareudp0
> +
> +2. Device creation with extended mode enabled
> +
> +There are two ways to create a bareudp device for MPLS & IP with extended mode
> +enabled

end that sentence with a period. (or full stop)

> +
> +a. ip link add dev  bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype 0x8847 extmode 1
> +
> +b. ip link add dev  bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls


-- 
~Randy