docs: networking: convert ipvlan.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 146 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 27a38e50c287..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,146 +0,0 @@
-
-                            IPVLAN Driver HOWTO
-
-Initial Release:
-	Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb AT google.com>
-
-1. Introduction:
-	This is conceptually very similar to the macvlan driver with one major
-exception of using L3 for mux-ing /demux-ing among slaves. This property makes
-the master device share the L2 with it's slave devices. I have developed this
-driver in conjunction with network namespaces and not sure if there is use case
-outside of it.
-
-
-2. Building and Installation:
-	In order to build the driver, please select the config item CONFIG_IPVLAN.
-The driver can be built into the kernel (CONFIG_IPVLAN=y) or as a module
-(CONFIG_IPVLAN=m).
-
-
-3. Configuration:
-	There are no module parameters for this driver and it can be configured
-using IProute2/ip utility.
-
-    ip link add link <master> name <slave> type ipvlan [ mode MODE ] [ FLAGS ]
-       where
-         MODE: l3 (default) | l3s | l2
-         FLAGS: bridge (default) | private | vepa
-
-    e.g.
-    (a) Following will create IPvlan link with eth0 as master in
-        L3 bridge mode
-          bash# ip link add link eth0 name ipvl0 type ipvlan
-    (b) This command will create IPvlan link in L2 bridge mode.
-          bash# ip link add link eth0 name ipvl0 type ipvlan mode l2 bridge
-    (c) This command will create an IPvlan device in L2 private mode.
-          bash# ip link add link eth0 name ipvlan type ipvlan mode l2 private
-    (d) This command will create an IPvlan device in L2 vepa mode.
-          bash# ip link add link eth0 name ipvlan type ipvlan mode l2 vepa
-
-
-4. Operating modes:
-	IPvlan has two modes of operation - L2 and L3. For a given master device,
-you can select one of these two modes and all slaves on that master will
-operate in the same (selected) mode. The RX mode is almost identical except
-that in L3 mode the slaves wont receive any multicast / broadcast traffic.
-L3 mode is more restrictive since routing is controlled from the other (mostly)
-default namespace.
-
-4.1 L2 mode:
-	In this mode TX processing happens on the stack instance attached to the
-slave device and packets are switched and queued to the master device to send
-out. In this mode the slaves will RX/TX multicast and broadcast (if applicable)
-as well.
-
-4.2 L3 mode:
-	In this mode TX processing up to L3 happens on the stack instance attached
-to the slave device and packets are switched to the stack instance of the
-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. Mode flags:
-	At this time following mode flags are available
-
-5.1 bridge:
-	This is the default option. To configure the IPvlan port in this mode,
-user can choose to either add this option on the command-line or don't specify
-anything. This is the traditional mode where slaves can cross-talk among
-themselves apart from talking through the master device.
-
-5.2 private:
-	If this option is added to the command-line, the port is set in private
-mode. i.e. port won't allow cross communication between slaves.
-
-5.3 vepa:
-	If this is added to the command-line, the port is set in VEPA mode.
-i.e. port will offload switching functionality to the external entity as
-described in 802.1Qbg
-Note: VEPA mode in IPvlan has limitations. IPvlan uses the mac-address of the
-master-device, so the packets which are emitted in this mode for the adjacent
-neighbor will have source and destination mac same. This will make the switch /
-router send the redirect message.
-
-6. What to choose (macvlan vs. ipvlan)?
-	These two devices are very similar in many regards and the specific use
-case could very well define which device to choose. if one of the following
-situations defines your use case then you can choose to use ipvlan -
-	(a) The Linux host that is connected to the external switch / router has
-policy configured that allows only one mac per port.
-	(b) No of virtual devices created on a master exceed the mac capacity and
-puts the NIC in promiscuous mode and degraded performance is a concern.
-	(c) If the slave device is to be put into the hostile / untrusted network
-namespace where L2 on the slave could be changed / misused.
-
-
-6. Example configuration:
-
-  +=============================================================+
-  |  Host: host1                                                |
-  |                                                             |
-  |   +----------------------+      +----------------------+    |
-  |   |   NS:ns0             |      |  NS:ns1              |    |
-  |   |                      |      |                      |    |
-  |   |                      |      |                      |    |
-  |   |        ipvl0         |      |         ipvl1        |    |
-  |   +----------#-----------+      +-----------#----------+    |
-  |              #                              #               |
-  |              ################################               |
-  |                              # eth0                         |
-  +==============================#==============================+
-
-
-	(a) Create two network namespaces - ns0, ns1
-		ip netns add ns0
-		ip netns add ns1
-
-	(b) Create two ipvlan slaves on eth0 (master device)
-		ip link add link eth0 ipvl0 type ipvlan mode l2
-		ip link add link eth0 ipvl1 type ipvlan mode l2
-
-	(c) Assign slaves to the respective network namespaces
-		ip link set dev ipvl0 netns ns0
-		ip link set dev ipvl1 netns ns1
-
-	(d) Now switch to the namespace (ns0 or ns1) to configure the slave devices
-		- For ns0
-			(1) ip netns exec ns0 bash
-			(2) ip link set dev ipvl0 up
-			(3) ip link set dev lo up
-			(4) ip -4 addr add 127.0.0.1 dev lo
-			(5) ip -4 addr add $IPADDR dev ipvl0
-			(6) ip -4 route add default via $ROUTER dev ipvl0
-		- For ns1
-			(1) ip netns exec ns1 bash
-			(2) ip link set dev ipvl1 up
-			(3) ip link set dev lo up
-			(4) ip -4 addr add 127.0.0.1 dev lo
-			(5) ip -4 addr add $IPADDR dev ipvl1
-			(6) ip -4 route add default via $ROUTER dev ipvl1