svn commit: r273331 - in head: sbin/ifconfig share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/modules sys/modules/if_vxlan sys/net sys/sys

[Bryan Venteicher]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Thompson <thompsa at freebsd.org>
wrote:

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> On 21 October 2014 03:42, Bryan Venteicher <bryanv at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Author: bryanv
>> Date: Mon Oct 20 14:42:42 2014
>> New Revision: 273331
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/273331
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>> Log:
>>   Add vxlan interface
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>>   vxlan creates a virtual LAN by encapsulating the inner Ethernet frame in
>>   a UDP packet. This implementation is based on RFC7348.
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>>   Currently, the IPv6 support is not fully compliant with the
>> specification:
>>   we should be able to receive UPDv6 packets with a zero checksum, but we
>>   need to support RFC6935 first. Patches for this should come soon.
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> Given it is self contained new code is it a 10.1 MFC candidate?
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I hope to merge vxlan to 10-STABLE in a couple of months, but need to
determine how to handle prerequisite commit r272886. There's ways without
it - use a mbuf tag and a reserved field in the inpcb - but it would be
nice if that commit is MFC'able.

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=272886



> Andrew
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