Commit afb97186 authored Oct 30, 2012 by Vincent Bernat Committed by David S. Miller Nov 03, 2012

vxlan: allow a user to set TTL value



"ip link add ... type vxlan ... ttl X" allows a user to set the TTL
used by a VXLAN for encapsulation. The provided value was ignored by
vxlan module and the default value of 1 was used when encapsulating
multicast packets.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 899a391b

drivers/net/vxlan.c

+3 −0

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		@@ -1107,6 +1107,9 @@ static int vxlan_newlink(struct net net, struct net_device dev,
		if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_TOS])
		vxlan->tos = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_VXLAN_TOS]);

		if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_TTL])
		vxlan->ttl = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_VXLAN_TTL]);

		if (!data[IFLA_VXLAN_LEARNING] \|\| nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_VXLAN_LEARNING]))
		vxlan->learn = true;

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