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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: David Lebrun <david.lebrun@uclouvain•be>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/9] ipv6: sr: add support for SRH encapsulation and injection with lwtunnels
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 05:59:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58134BCC.90707@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477575239-11228-4-git-send-email-david.lebrun@uclouvain.be>

On 10/27/16, 6:33 AM, David Lebrun wrote:
> This patch creates a new type of interfaceless lightweight tunnel (SEG6),
> enabling the encapsulation and injection of SRH within locally emitted
> packets and forwarded packets.
>
> From a configuration viewpoint, a seg6 tunnel would be configured as follows:
>
>   ip -6 ro ad fc00::1/128 encap seg6 mode encap segs fc42::1,fc42::2,fc42::3 dev eth0
>
> Any packet whose destination address is fc00::1 would thus be encapsulated
> within an outer IPv6 header containing the SRH with three segments, and would
> actually be routed to the first segment of the list. If `mode inline' was
> specified instead of `mode encap', then the SRH would be directly inserted
> after the IPv6 header without outer encapsulation.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Lebrun <david.lebrun@uclouvain•be>
>
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-27 13:33 [PATCH net-next v3 0/9] net: add support for IPv6 Segment Routing David Lebrun
2016-10-27 13:33 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/9] ipv6: implement dataplane support for rthdr type 4 (Segment Routing Header) David Lebrun
2016-10-27 13:33 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/9] ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of SR-IPv6 David Lebrun
2016-10-27 13:33 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/9] ipv6: sr: add support for SRH encapsulation and injection with lwtunnels David Lebrun
2016-10-27 22:21   ` kbuild test robot
2016-10-28 12:59   ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]
2016-10-27 13:33 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/9] ipv6: sr: add core files for SR HMAC support David Lebrun
2016-10-27 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v3 5/9] ipv6: sr: implement API to control SR HMAC structure David Lebrun
2016-10-27 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v3 6/9] ipv6: sr: add calls to verify and insert HMAC signatures David Lebrun
2016-10-27 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v3 7/9] ipv6: add source address argument for ipv6_push_nfrag_opts David Lebrun
2016-10-27 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v3 8/9] ipv6: sr: add support for SRH injection through setsockopt David Lebrun
2016-10-27 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v3 9/9] ipv6: sr: add documentation file for per-interface sysctls David Lebrun

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