[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/1] ip6gretap documentation
Eli Britstein
elibr at mellanox.com
Sat Jun 22 15:41:28 UTC 2019
Signed-off-by: Eli Britstein <elibr at mellanox.com>
---
vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index bf4b6f8dc..b7d81cdaa 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -2561,10 +2561,16 @@
<dt><code>gre</code></dt>
<dd>
- Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) over IPv4/IPv6 tunnel,
+ Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) over IPv4 tunnel,
configurable to encapsulate layer 2 or layer 3 traffic.
</dd>
+ <dt><code>ip6gretap</code></dt>
+ <dd>
+ Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) over IPv6 tunnel,
+ encapsulate layer 2 traffic.
+ </dd>
+
<dt><code>vxlan</code></dt>
<dd>
<p>
@@ -2623,8 +2629,8 @@
<group title="Tunnel Options">
<p>
These options apply to interfaces with <ref column="type"/> of
- <code>geneve</code>, <code>gre</code>, <code>vxlan</code>,
- <code>lisp</code> and <code>stt</code>.
+ <code>geneve</code>, <code>gre</code>, <code>ip6gretap</code>,
+ <code>vxlan</code>, <code>lisp</code> and <code>stt</code>.
</p>
<p>
@@ -2921,10 +2927,10 @@
</column>
</group>
- <group title="Tunnel Options: gre, geneve, and vxlan">
+ <group title="Tunnel Options: gre, ip6gretap, geneve, and vxlan">
<p>
- <code>gre</code>, <code>geneve</code>, and
- <code>vxlan</code> interfaces support these options.
+ <code>gre</code>, <code>ip6gretap</code>, <code>geneve</code>,
+ and <code>vxlan</code> interfaces support these options.
</p>
<column name="options" key="csum" type='{"type": "boolean"}'>
@@ -2938,8 +2944,9 @@
<p>
When using the upstream Linux kernel module, computation of
checksums for <code>geneve</code> and <code>vxlan</code> requires
- Linux kernel version 4.0 or higher. <code>gre</code> supports
- checksums for all versions of Open vSwitch that support GRE.
+ Linux kernel version 4.0 or higher. <code>gre</code> and
+ <code>ip6gretap</code> support checksums for all versions of
+ Open vSwitch that support GRE.
The out of tree kernel module distributed as part of OVS
can compute all tunnel checksums on any kernel version that it
is compatible with.
@@ -2951,10 +2958,11 @@
<group title="Tunnel Options: IPsec">
<p>
Setting any of these options enables IPsec support for a given
- tunnel. <code>gre</code>, <code>geneve</code>, <code>vxlan</code>,
- and <code>stt</code> interfaces support these options. See the
- <code>IPsec</code> section in the <ref table="Open_vSwitch"/> table
- for a description of each mode.
+ tunnel. <code>gre</code>, <code>ip6gretap</code>,
+ <code>geneve</code>, <code>vxlan</code> and <code>stt</code>
+ interfaces support these options. See the <code>IPsec</code>
+ section in the <ref table="Open_vSwitch"/> table for a description
+ of each mode.
</p>
<column name="options" key="psk" type='{"type": "string"}'>
<p>
--
2.17.2
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