Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2013-03-01

Re: [RFC Patch net-next] vxlan: add ipv6 support

From: Cong Wang <hidden>
Date: 2013-03-01 03:31:41

On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 16:07 -0500, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
On 02/28/2013 05:33 AM, Thomas Graf wrote:
quoted
On 02/28/13 at 02:01pm, Cong Wang wrote:
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WARNING: This is just an RFC patch, it only compiles!!

This patch adds IPv6 support to vxlan device, as the new version
RFC already mentioned it:

	http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03

I am not sure if the following trick will work:

	+       if (nla_len(nla) == sizeof(__be32)) {
	+               ip->ip4 = nla_get_be32(nla);
	+               ip->proto = htons(ETH_P_IP);
	+       }
	+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
	+       else if (nla_len(nla) == sizeof(struct in6_addr)) {
	+               nla_memcpy(&ip->ip6, nla, sizeof(struct in6_addr));
	+               ip->proto = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
	+       }
	+#endif

otherwise we have to introduce some new netlink attributes for
IPv6 addresses? Any comments?
How about setting ndm_family to AF_INET6 and parse NDA_DST based on
that?
Not sure if you can do that without registering your own fdb netlink 
handler.  rtnl_fdb_add is registered for PF_BRIDGE family.
Yeah...
You could do that, or use NDA_DST similar to how neighbor table uses it.
There the data inside of NDA_DST holds an address family and other data.
The data inside NDA_DST in neighbor table is the IP address used as a
key:

        if (nla_put(skb, NDA_DST, neigh->tbl->key_len,
neigh->primary_key))
                goto nla_put_failure;

there is not address family inside it.

Thanks.
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