Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] man ip-link: Add missing link types - vti,ipvlan,nlmon

From: Dan Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 12:01:21 -0500

On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 11:59 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 19:00 +0300, Vadim Kochan wrote:
> > From: Vadim Kochan <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  man/man8/ip-link.8.in | 14 +++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
> > index 0e3bb5e..642cdb2 100644
> > --- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
> > +++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
> > @@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ ip-link \- network device configuration
> >  .BR gre " |"
> >  .BR gretap " |"
> >  .BR ip6gre " |"
> > -.BR ip6gretap " ]"
> > +.BR ip6gretap " |"
> > +.BR vti " |"
> > +.BR nlmon " |"
> > +.BR ipvlan " ]"
> >  
> >  .ti -8
> >  .BI "ip link delete " DEVICE
> > @@ -228,6 +231,15 @@ Link types:
> >  .sp
> >  .BR ip6gretap
> >  - Virtual L2 tunnel interface GRE over IPv6
> > +.sp
> > +.BR vti
> > +- Virtual tunnel interface
> > +.sp
> > +.BR nlmon
> > +- Netlink monitoring device
> > +.sp
> > +.BR ipvlan
> > +- Interface for L3 (IPv6/IPv4) based VLANs
> 
> ipvlan does L2 as well.

Too quick reply; although its main purpose is L3 of course, it *can* do
L2 operation as well but not in a VLAN-y mode since it shares the same
L2 address.  But since that would be rather odd, just ignore my previous
reply, L3 is fine here.

Dan