netdev - RE: [PATCHv4 net-next 16/16] sctp: enable udp tunneling socks

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Message-ID: <1614a5aa143147a385f7db7bdda0bfd3@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:08:17 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Marcelo Ricardo Leitner' <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Michael Tuexen <tuexen@...muenster.de>
CC:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org" <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        davem <davem@...emloft.net>, Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCHv4 net-next 16/16] sctp: enable udp tunneling socks

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> Sent: 20 October 2020 22:24
...
> > > Did FreeBSD enable it by default too?
> > No. The default is 0, which means that the encapsulation is turned off.
> > Setting this sysctl variable to a non-zero value enables the UDP tunneling
> > with the given port.
> 
> Thanks Michael.
> Xin, then we should change this default value (and update the
> documentation above accordingly, to still have the standard port #
> readily available in there).

Does that mean that you can't have some 'normal' connections and
others that use UDP encapsulation?
Seems a pretty strong restriction.

(I'm waiting for one of our customers to ask for this...)

	David

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