On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 03:49:38AM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 04/22/16 at 07:44pm, Jiri Benc wrote: > > For ipgre interfaces in collect metadata mode, receive also traffic with > > encapsulated Ethernet headers. The lwtunnel users are supposed to sort this > > out correctly. This allows to have mixed Ethernet + L3-only traffic on the > > same lwtunnel interface. > > > > To keep backwards compatibility and prevent any surprises, gretap interfaces > > have priority in receiving packets with Ethernet headers. > > I may be missing some context. Is anyone using this already or is this > preparing the stage for another user? It's not clear to me from the > commit message.
Hi Thomas, I'm not sure what use Jiri may have in mind but I plan to use this to allow OvS to support packets without an Ethernet header to be received from and sent to a GRE tunnel. I am reasonably sure there are no existing users.
