[ovs-dev] [PATCHv5] tunnel: Add layer 2 IPv6 GRE encapsulation support.

William Tu u9012063 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 3 15:59:37 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 4:43 PM Gregory Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/1/2019 12:45 PM, William Tu wrote:
> > The patch adds ip6gre support. Tunnel type 'ip6gre' with packet_type=
> > legacy_l2 is a layer 2 GRE tunnel over IPv6, carrying inner ethernet packets
> > and encap with GRE header with outer IPv6 header.  Encapsulation of layer 3
> > packet over IPv6 GRE, ip6gre, is not supported yet.  I tested it by running:
> >    # make check-kernel TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k ip6gre'
> > under kernel 5.2 and for userspace:
> >    # make check TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k ip6gre'
> >
> > Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > v1-v2
> >   - rebase to master
> > v2-v3
> >    - update documentation suggested by Eli
> > v3-v4
> >    - squash Eli's documentation
> > v4-v5
> >    - remove using 'ip6gretap', use only 'ip6gre' with
> >      options:packet_type=legacy_l2
> > ---
>
> LGTM - ran into two problems testing, user error or on one and an issue
> on a single system that is not reproducible
> anywhere else.  Ran check-kmod for systems running the out of tree
> kernel modules and check-kernel on a system
> with the upstream kernel - all checks out well.  Passes a travis check -
>
> https://travis-ci.org/gvrose8192/ovs-experimental/builds/552977116
>
> Thanks William!
>
> Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
>

Thanks for testing on different distributions.
--William
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