On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Gregory Rose <gvrose8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/2017 3:03 PM, William Tu wrote:
>>
>> The patch adds 'external' option to support collect metadata
>> gre6 tunnel. Example of L3 and L2 gre device:
>> bash:~# ip link add dev ip6gre123 type ip6gre external
>> bash:~# ip link add dev ip6gretap123 type ip6gretap external
>
>
> Hi William,
>
> one question.  Is there ever actually going to be a situation in which an
> ipv6 gre tunnel will go from
> external to not external?  I'm wondering if the "no external" option is
> really needed since default is
> no and I'm not sure under what circumstances a tunnel would go from external
> to not external.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Greg

good point. I don't think we should support setting a tunnel from
external to no external at run-time.
Let me remove the "noexternal" description in man page.
Thanks

William

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