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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: christophe.gouault@6wind•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	amwang@redhat•com, saurabh@vyatta•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] vti: get rid of nf mark rule in prerouting
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 20:59:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140106205932.29553fd2@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131011.145304.305063991853045981.davem@davemloft.net>

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:53:04 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:

> From: Christophe Gouault <christophe.gouault@6wind•com>
> Date: Tue,  8 Oct 2013 17:21:22 +0200
> 
> > This patch fixes and improves the use of vti interfaces (while
> > lightly changing the way of configuring them).
>  ...
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe Gouault <christophe.gouault@6wind•com>
> > ---
> > This is is both a fix and enhancement patch. However, there are 2 ways
> > of fixing the inbound processing bug:
> > - either keep the current configuration model (ikey + netfilter rule)
> >   and change the tunnel lookup method. This patch would then be reverted
> >   by the enhancement (this sounds counterproductive).
> > - or directly change the configuration model (okey, no netfilter rule) and keep
> >   the current tunnel lookup method.
> 
> Ok, applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

I hate to reply to old threads, but this keeps context.

We have discovered a problem with this patch, it breaks the earlier use of VTI
because it loses the mark applied through iptables. It was not a "light change"
to the way to configure them and should have gotten more review and was not
appropriate for -stable.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-07  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08 15:21 [PATCH net] vti: get rid of nf mark rule in prerouting Christophe Gouault
2013-10-08 16:48 ` Saurabh Mohan
2013-10-11 18:53 ` David Miller
2014-01-07  4:59   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-05-02 13:57 Brad Johnson

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