@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ using IProute2/ip utility.
ip link add link <master-dev> <slave-dev> type ipvlan mode { l2 | L3 }
- e.g. ip link add link ipvl0 eth0 type ipvlan mode l2
+ e.g. ip link add link eth0 ipvl0 type ipvlan mode l2
4. Operating modes:
@@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ slave device and packets are switched and queued to the master device to send
out. In this mode the slaves will RX/TX multicast and broadcast (if applicable)
as well.
+ In L2 mode slave devices receive Router Advertisements from the network
+and perform autoconfiguration as well as master device. Each port has unique
+16-bit device id which is used for filling octets 4-5 of Modified EUI-64.
+That gives 65533 addresses (FF-FE used by master, FF-FF/00-00 reserved/not used).
+
+ Also lower half of IPv6 address could be set as interface token:
+
+ ip token set ::aaaa:bbbb:cccc:dddd dev ipvl0
+
4.2 L3 mode:
In this mode TX processing upto L3 happens on the stack instance attached
to the slave device and packets are switched to the stack instance of the
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ struct ipvl_port {
int count;
u16 mode;
spinlock_t addr_lock;
+ struct ida ida;
};
static inline struct ipvl_port *ipvlan_port_get_rcu(const struct net_device *d)
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static int ipvlan_port_create(struct net_device *dev)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&port->ipvlans);
for (idx = 0; idx < IPVLAN_HASH_SIZE; idx++)
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&port->hlhead[idx]);
+ ida_init(&port->ida);
skb_queue_head_init(&port->backlog);
INIT_WORK(&port->wq, ipvlan_process_multicast);
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ static void ipvlan_port_destroy(struct net_device *dev)
netdev_rx_handler_unregister(dev);
cancel_work_sync(&port->wq);
__skb_queue_purge(&port->backlog);
+ ida_destroy(&port->ida);
kfree_rcu(port, rcu);
}
@@ -481,6 +483,18 @@ static int ipvlan_link_new(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
*/
memcpy(dev->dev_addr, phy_dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
+ if (port->mode == IPVLAN_MODE_L2) {
+ /*
+ * IPv6 addrconf uses it to produce unique addresses,
+ * see function addrconf_ifid_eui48.
+ */
+ err = ida_simple_get(&port->ida, 1, 0xFFFE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (err > 0)
+ dev->dev_id = err;
+ else if (err != -ENOSPC)
+ goto ipvlan_destroy_port;
+ }
+
dev->priv_flags |= IFF_IPVLAN_SLAVE;
port->count += 1;
@@ -517,6 +531,11 @@ static void ipvlan_link_delete(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
}
ipvlan_addr_unlock_bh(ipvlan);
+ if (dev->dev_id) {
+ ida_simple_remove(&ipvlan->port->ida, dev->dev_id);
+ dev->dev_id = 0;
+ }
+
list_del_rcu(&ipvlan->pnode);
unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, head);
netdev_upper_dev_unlink(ipvlan->phy_dev, dev);
All ipvlan ports use one MAC address, this way ipv6 RA tries to assign one ipv6 address to all of them. This patch assigns unique dev_id to each ipvlan port. This field is used instead of common FF-FE in Modified EUI-64. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> --- Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt | 11 ++++++++++- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h | 1 + drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html