[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: tunnel: Do not use inner ip-header-id for tunnel ip-header-id.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Wed Aug 14 20:34:23 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:
> Using inner-id for tunnel id is not safe in some rare cases.
> E.g. packets coming from multiple sources entering same tunnel
> can have same id. Therefore on tunnel packet receive we
> could have packets from two different stream but with same
> source and dst IP with same ip-id which could confuse ip packet
> reassembly.
>
> CC: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>
> CC: Ansis Atteka <aatteka at nicira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
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