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Message-ID: <20230418085323.h6xij7w6d2o4kxxi@begin>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:53:23 +0200
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To: Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
Cc: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>, tparkin@...alix.com,
edumazet@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
pabeni@...hat.com, corbet@....net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPPoL2TP: Add more code snippets
Guillaume Nault, le mar. 18 avril 2023 10:34:03 +0200, a ecrit:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:07:04AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > sax.sa_family = AF_PPPOX;
> > sax.sa_protocol = PX_PROTO_OL2TP;
> > sax.pppol2tp.fd = tunnel_fd;
> > @@ -406,12 +407,64 @@ Sample userspace code:
> > /* session_fd is the fd of the session's PPPoL2TP socket.
> > * tunnel_fd is the fd of the tunnel UDP / L2TPIP socket.
> > */
> > - fd = connect(session_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&sax, sizeof(sax));
> > - if (fd < 0 ) {
> > + ret = connect(session_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&sax, sizeof(sax));
> > + if (ret < 0 ) {
>
> Now you also need to close session_fd.
? No, we need it for PPPIOCGCHAN, and also PPPIOCGL2TPSTATS.
I'll put return session_fd instead.
> > +The ppp<ifunit> interface can then be configured as usual with SIOCSIFMTU,
> > +SIOCSIFADDR, SIOCSIFDSTADDR, SIOCSIFNETMASK, and activated by setting IFF_UP
> > +with SIOCSIFFLAGS
> > +
> > + - Tunnel switching is supported by bridging channels::
>
> This is a PPP feature not an L2TP one.
>
> PPPIOCBRIDGECHAN's description
> belongs to Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.rst, where it's already
> documented.
Yes but that's hard to find out when you're looking from the L2TP end.
> If necessary, you can link to ppp_generic.rst here.
>
> Also, calling this feature 'tunnel switching' is misleading.
That's how I have seen it is called in L2TP jargon.
Samuel
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