Re: [PATCH next 3/3] ipvlan: Introduce l3s mode

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Rick Jones [off-list ref] wrote:

On 09/09/2016 02:53 PM, Mahesh Bandewar wrote:

quoted

@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ master device for the L2 processing and routing from

that instance will be
 used before packets are queued on the outbound device. In this mode the
slaves
 will not receive nor can send multicast / broadcast traffic.

+4.3 L3S mode:
+       This is very similar to the L3 mode except that iptables
conn-tracking
+works in this mode and that is why L3-symsetric (L3s) from iptables
perspective.
+This will have slightly less performance but that shouldn't matter since
you
+are choosing this mode over plain-L3 mode to make conn-tracking work.

What is that first sentence trying to say?  It appears to be incomplete, and
is that supposed to be "L3-symmetric?"

Apologies! Seems like I picked up wrong text file (I'll correct this
in next ver). BTW it should read -
" This is very similar to L3 mode except that iptables (conn-tracking)
works in this mode and hence it is  L3-symmetric (L3s). This will have
..."

happy benchmarking,

rick jones