Hi Thomas, > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Markuze [mailto:alex at weka.io] > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:18 PM > To: Thomas Monjalon > Cc: Liu, Jijiang; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6]i40e:Add VxLAN Cloud filter API > > All are L2 over L3(UDP) - General name - Network Overlay. > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Thomas Monjalon > <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote: > > 2014-08-13 08:23, Liu, Jijiang: > >> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] > >> > About API, why name it cloud filter instead of VxLAN? > >> > >> VxLAN is just a kind tunnel type, there are another tunnel types > >> based on protocol type, they are below. > >> Tunnel Type: > >> * 0x0: VXLAN > >> * 0x1: NVGRE or other MAC in GRE > >> * 0x2: Geneve > >> 0x3: IP in GRE > >> Currently, I just implemented VxLAN tunnel type, and we will support > >> another tunnel types in cloud filter API later. > > > > OK, I understand. But cloud filter is just a marketing name. > > Please let's stick to technical and precise names. > > It seems these tunnels are L2 over IP, right? > > > > -- > > Thomas
I agree. I will change the API name as rte_eth_dev_tunnel_filter_set(), which means the API supports tunneled packet filtering. Any comments? Thanks Jijiang Liu
