On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 11:20:04AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2016 18:12:05 +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
[...] > > 3. With regards to the mirroring part of your question, I need to check > > on that and possibly its broken. But my thinking is that a mirroring > > vport would regarded in the same way as any other vport in this respect > > and the presence of the "layer3" flag would control whether an Ethernet > > header is present or not. > > > > It may be the case that its not possible to use a tunnel vport as a > > mirroring vport. And as all other vports currently do not support > > "layer3" then currently an Ethernet header would always be present > > on output to a mirror. > > We can just require a mirror port to be always L2 and output the L3 > packets with zero Ethernet addresses. For mirroring, this should be > okay(?) Yes, I expect that is a good approach. I'll look over the code to see about making that so if its not already the case.
