[ovs-dev] [PATCH v8] datapath: Add Stateless TCP Tunneling protocol.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Mon Apr 27 20:34:22 UTC 2015


On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:
> The Stateless TCP Tunnel (STT) protocol encapsulates traffic in
> IPv4/TCP packets.
> STT uses TCP segmentation offload available in most of NIC. On
> packet xmit STT driver appends STT header along with TCP header
> to the packet. For GSO packet GSO parameters are set according
> to tunnel configuration and packet is handed over to networking
> stack. This allows use of segmentation offload available in NICs
>
> The protocol is documented at
> http://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-davie-stt-06.txt
>
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

I haven't looked through this yet but this currently doesn't compile
after Alex's latest patches:

Should prefix stt_sock_add with rpl_ or ovs_.
Makefile:791: recipe for target 'check-export-symbol' failed



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