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4 Bare UDP Tunnelling Module Documentation
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7 There are various L3 encapsulation standards using UDP being discussed to
8 leverage the UDP based load balancing capability of different networks.
9 MPLSoUDP (__ https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7510) is one among them.
11 The Bareudp tunnel module provides a generic L3 encapsulation support for
12 tunnelling different L3 protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH etc. inside a UDP tunnel.
16 The bareudp device supports special handling for MPLS & IP as they can have
18 MPLS procotcol can have ethertypes ETH_P_MPLS_UC (unicast) & ETH_P_MPLS_MC (multicast).
19 IP protocol can have ethertypes ETH_P_IP (v4) & ETH_P_IPV6 (v6).
20 This special handling can be enabled only for ethertypes ETH_P_IP & ETH_P_MPLS_UC
21 with a flag called multiproto mode.
26 1) Device creation & deletion
28 a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc
30 This creates a bareudp tunnel device which tunnels L3 traffic with ethertype
31 0x8847 (MPLS traffic). The destination port of the UDP header will be set to
32 6635.The device will listen on UDP port 6635 to receive traffic.
34 b) ip link delete bareudp0
36 2) Device creation with multiproto mode enabled
38 The multiproto mode allows bareudp tunnels to handle several protocols of the
39 same family. It is currently only available for IP and MPLS. This mode has to
40 be enabled explicitly with the "multiproto" flag.
42 a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype ipv4 multiproto
44 For an IPv4 tunnel the multiproto mode allows the tunnel to also handle
47 b) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc multiproto
49 For MPLS, the multiproto mode allows the tunnel to handle both unicast
50 and multicast MPLS packets.
54 The bareudp device could be used along with OVS or flower filter in TC.
55 The OVS or TC flower layer must set the tunnel information in SKB dst field before
56 sending packet buffer to the bareudp device for transmission. On reception the
57 bareudp device extracts and stores the tunnel information in SKB dst field before
58 passing the packet buffer to the network stack.