[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/3] ipsec: reintroduce IPsec support for tunneling

Qiuyu Xiao qiuyu.xiao.qyx at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 20:22:38 UTC 2018


Thanks! I will improve the patch based on the suggestions and will post it soon.

-Qiuyu

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:58:42AM -0700, Qiuyu Xiao wrote:
>> From: Ansis Atteka <aatteka at ovn.org>
>>
>> This patch reintroduces ovs-monitor-ipsec daemon that
>> was previously removed by commit 2b02d770 ("openvswitch:
>> Allow external IPsec tunnel management.")
>>
>> The reason for removal at the time was that there were IPsec
>> flavoured tunnel types, like ipsec_gre, that consumed for
>> themselves the least significant bit of SKB mark irrelevant
>> whether Open vSwitch users were using IPsec or not.
>>
>> After this patch, there are no IPsec flavored tunnels anymore.
>> IPsec is enabled by setting up the right values in:
>> 1. OVSDB:Interface:options column;
>> 2. OVSDB:Open_vSwitch:other_config column;
>> 3. OpenFlow pipeline.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka at ovn.org>
>
> Thanks for working on this.
>
> You should add your own Signed-off-by line just after Ansis's.
>
> Aaron gave some helpful comments.  I hope you will consider them.
>
> The documentation has some odd <p>...</p> paragraphs in it.  Do you
> think that there is missing documentation?  Maybe they can just be
> deleted.


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