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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt | 47 |
5 files changed, 104 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt index 8f3ae4a6147..a173d2a879f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt @@ -75,9 +75,10 @@ folder: There is a special folder for debugging information: -# ls /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/ -# bla_claim_table log socket transtable_local -# gateways originators transtable_global vis_data +# ls /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/ +# bla_backbone_table log transtable_global +# bla_claim_table originators transtable_local +# gateways socket vis_data Some of the files contain all sort of status information regard- ing the mesh network. For example, you can view the table of diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 6b1c7110534..10a015c384b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -752,12 +752,22 @@ xmit_hash_policy protocol information to generate the hash. Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses and IP addresses to - generate the hash. The formula is + generate the hash. The IPv4 formula is (((source IP XOR dest IP) AND 0xffff) XOR ( source MAC XOR destination MAC )) modulo slave count + The IPv6 formula is + + hash = (source ip quad 2 XOR dest IP quad 2) XOR + (source ip quad 3 XOR dest IP quad 3) XOR + (source ip quad 4 XOR dest IP quad 4) + + (((hash >> 24) XOR (hash >> 16) XOR (hash >> 8) XOR hash) + XOR (source MAC XOR destination MAC)) + modulo slave count + This algorithm will place all traffic to a particular network peer on the same slave. For non-IP traffic, the formula is the same as for the layer2 transmit @@ -778,19 +788,29 @@ xmit_hash_policy slaves, although a single connection will not span multiple slaves. - The formula for unfragmented TCP and UDP packets is + The formula for unfragmented IPv4 TCP and UDP packets is ((source port XOR dest port) XOR ((source IP XOR dest IP) AND 0xffff) modulo slave count - For fragmented TCP or UDP packets and all other IP - protocol traffic, the source and destination port + The formula for unfragmented IPv6 TCP and UDP packets is + + hash = (source port XOR dest port) XOR + ((source ip quad 2 XOR dest IP quad 2) XOR + (source ip quad 3 XOR dest IP quad 3) XOR + (source ip quad 4 XOR dest IP quad 4)) + + ((hash >> 24) XOR (hash >> 16) XOR (hash >> 8) XOR hash) + modulo slave count + + For fragmented TCP or UDP packets and all other IPv4 and + IPv6 protocol traffic, the source and destination port information is omitted. For non-IP traffic, the formula is the same as for the layer2 transmit hash policy. - This policy is intended to mimic the behavior of + The IPv4 policy is intended to mimic the behavior of certain switches, notably Cisco switches with PFC2 as well as some Foundry and IBM products. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index ca447b35b83..c7fc1072494 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -439,7 +439,9 @@ tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value - is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds. + is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission + with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout + for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds. tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES @@ -465,20 +467,37 @@ tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN tcp_fastopen - INTEGER Enable TCP Fast Open feature (draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen) to send data in the opening SYN packet. To use this feature, the client application - must not use connect(). Instead, it should use sendmsg() or sendto() - with MSG_FASTOPEN flag which performs a TCP handshake automatically. - - The values (bitmap) are: - 1: Enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client - 5: Enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client regardless - of cookie availability. + must use sendmsg() or sendto() with MSG_FASTOPEN flag rather than + connect() to perform a TCP handshake automatically. + + The values (bitmap) are + 1: Enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client. + 2: Enables TCP Fast Open on the server side, i.e., allowing data in + a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the application before + 3-way hand shake finishes. + 4: Send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie availability and + without a cookie option. + 0x100: Accept SYN data w/o validating the cookie. + 0x200: Accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present. + 0x400/0x800: Enable Fast Open on all listeners regardless of the + TCP_FASTOPEN socket option. The two different flags designate two + different ways of setting max_qlen without the TCP_FASTOPEN socket + option. Default: 0 + Note that the client & server side Fast Open flags (1 and 2 + respectively) must be also enabled before the rest of flags can take + effect. + + See include/net/tcp.h and the code for more details. + tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value - is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds. + is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last restransmission + with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout + for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds. tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt index c676b9cedbd..ef9ee71b4d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt @@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ Where: For MDIO bus The we have: struct stmmac_mdio_bus_data { - int bus_id; int (*phy_reset)(void *priv); unsigned int phy_mask; int *irqs; @@ -181,7 +180,6 @@ For MDIO bus The we have: }; Where: - o bus_id: bus identifier; o phy_reset: hook to reset the phy device attached to the bus. o phy_mask: phy mask passed when register the MDIO bus within the driver. o irqs: list of IRQs, one per PHY. @@ -230,9 +228,6 @@ there are two MAC cores: one MAC is for MDIO Bus/PHY emulation with fixed_link support. static struct stmmac_mdio_bus_data stmmac1_mdio_bus = { - .bus_id = 1, - | - |-> phy device on the bus_id 1 .phy_reset = phy_reset; | |-> function to provide the phy_reset on this board diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5b34b762d7d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networking documentation +====================================================== + +The VXLAN protocol is a tunnelling protocol that is designed to +solve the problem of limited number of available VLAN's (4096). +With VXLAN identifier is expanded to 24 bits. + +It is a draft RFC standard, that is implemented by Cisco Nexus, +Vmware and Brocade. The protocol runs over UDP using a single +destination port (still not standardized by IANA). +This document describes the Linux kernel tunnel device, +there is also an implantation of VXLAN for Openvswitch. + +Unlike most tunnels, a VXLAN is a 1 to N network, not just point +to point. A VXLAN device can either dynamically learn the IP address +of the other end, in a manner similar to a learning bridge, or the +forwarding entries can be configured statically. + +The management of vxlan is done in a similar fashion to it's +too closest neighbors GRE and VLAN. Configuring VXLAN requires +the version of iproute2 that matches the kernel release +where VXLAN was first merged upstream. + +1. Create vxlan device + # ip li add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth1 + +This creates a new device (vxlan0). The device uses the +the multicast group 239.1.1.1 over eth1 to handle packets where +no entry is in the forwarding table. + +2. Delete vxlan device + # ip link delete vxlan0 + +3. Show vxlan info + # ip -d show vxlan0 + +It is possible to create, destroy and display the vxlan +forwarding table using the new bridge command. + +1. Create forwarding table entry + # bridge fdb add to 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 dst 192.19.0.2 dev vxlan0 + +2. Delete forwarding table entry + # bridge fdb delete 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 + +3. Show forwarding table + # bridge fdb show dev vxlan0 |