Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] ipip: advertise tunnel param via rtnl
From: Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
Date: 2012-11-09 17:01:03
Le 09/11/2012 17:37, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 17:09 +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:quoted
It is usefull for daemons that monitor link event to have the full parameters of these interfaces when a rtnl message is sent. It allows also to dump them via rtnetlink. It is based on what is done for GRE tunnels. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <redacted> ---Nice ! Note this also adds support for link creation. Do you plan to add iproute2 support for : ip link add ipip1 type ipip remote 10.246.8.36 Thanks Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
If the principle is approved, yes. If we add it, we will have two ways to manage these tunnels, via netlink and via ioctl, is it ok? A side effect could be to have an option or an argument to the module to not create the control interface (tunl0, sit0, ...).