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| author | Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> | 2016-09-16 22:59:19 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-09-19 08:25:22 +0300 |
| commit | 4fbae7d83c98c30efcf0a2a2ac55fbb75ef5a1a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ea819d38ad4fbbae8d4db166f58451c2a78ee20 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | e8bffe0cf964f0330595bb376b74921cccdaac88 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4fbae7d83c98c30efcf0a2a2ac55fbb75ef5a1a5.tar.xz | |
ipvlan: Introduce l3s mode
In a typical IPvlan L3 setup where master is in default-ns and
each slave is into different (slave) ns. In this setup egress
packet processing for traffic originating from slave-ns will
hit all NF_HOOKs in slave-ns as well as default-ns. However same
is not true for ingress processing. All these NF_HOOKs are
hit only in the slave-ns skipping them in the default-ns.
IPvlan in L3 mode is restrictive and if admins want to deploy
iptables rules in default-ns, this asymmetric data path makes it
impossible to do so.
This patch makes use of the l3_rcv() (added as part of l3mdev
enhancements) to perform input route lookup on RX packets without
changing the skb->dev and then uses nf_hook at NF_INET_LOCAL_IN
to change the skb->dev just before handing over skb to L4.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
CC: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt index 14422f8fcdc4..24196cef7c91 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The driver can be built into the kernel (CONFIG_IPVLAN=y) or as a module There are no module parameters for this driver and it can be configured using IProute2/ip utility. - ip link add link <master-dev> <slave-dev> type ipvlan mode { l2 | L3 } + ip link add link <master-dev> <slave-dev> type ipvlan mode { l2 | l3 | l3s } e.g. ip link add link ipvl0 eth0 type ipvlan mode l2 @@ -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 hence it is L3-symmetric (L3s). 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. 5. What to choose (macvlan vs. ipvlan)? These two devices are very similar in many regards and the specific use |