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| author | Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> | 2015-08-18 12:18:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> | 2015-08-20 13:01:58 -0700 |
| commit | 99e7b077407c51b291ddcc238e4ac83e9f732925 (patch) | |
| tree | 25554e93f4ef9d51b2bbf2b61a4442112ab5ac8f /vswitchd | |
| parent | f786a3158e525004e3c23bc24b954121a50a78c7 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-99e7b077407c51b291ddcc238e4ac83e9f732925.tar.gz | |
tunneling: Remove gre64 tunnel support.
GRE64 was introduced to extend gre key from 32-bit to 64-bit using
gre-key and sequence number field. But GRE64 is not standard
protocol. There are not many users of this protocol. Therefore we
have decided to remove it.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'vswitchd')
| -rw-r--r-- | vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 24 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml index 17035bbad..457f34a66 100644 --- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml +++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml @@ -1848,21 +1848,6 @@ IPsec tunnel. </dd> - <dt><code>gre64</code></dt> - <dd> - It is same as GRE, but it allows 64 bit key. To store higher 32-bits - of key, it uses GRE protocol sequence number field. This is non - standard use of GRE protocol since OVS does not increment - sequence number for every packet at time of encap as expected by - standard GRE implementation. See <ref group="Tunnel Options"/> - for information on configuring GRE tunnels. - </dd> - - <dt><code>ipsec_gre64</code></dt> - <dd> - Same as IPSEC_GRE except 64 bit key. - </dd> - <dt><code>vxlan</code></dt> <dd> <p> @@ -1927,8 +1912,7 @@ <p> These options apply to interfaces with <ref column="type"/> of <code>geneve</code>, <code>gre</code>, <code>ipsec_gre</code>, - <code>gre64</code>, <code>ipsec_gre64</code>, <code>vxlan</code>, - <code>lisp</code> and <code>stt</code>. + <code>vxlan</code>, <code>lisp</code> and <code>stt</code>. </p> <p> @@ -2017,7 +2001,7 @@ </li> <li> A positive 24-bit (for Geneve, VXLAN, and LISP), 32-bit (for GRE) - or 64-bit (for GRE64 and STT) number. The tunnel receives only + or 64-bit (for STT) number. The tunnel receives only packets with the specified key. </li> <li> @@ -2044,7 +2028,7 @@ </li> <li> A positive 24-bit (for Geneve, VXLAN and LISP), 32-bit (for GRE) or - 64-bit (for GRE64 and STT) number. Packets sent through the tunnel + 64-bit (for STT) number. Packets sent through the tunnel will have the specified key. </li> <li> @@ -4551,7 +4535,7 @@ <p>data type semantics: identifier.</p> <p>description: Key which is used for identifying an individual traffic flow within a VxLAN (24-bit VNI), GENEVE (24-bit VNI), - GRE (32- or 64-bit key), or LISP (24-bit instance ID) tunnel. The + GRE (32-bit key), or LISP (24-bit instance ID) tunnel. The key is encoded in this octetarray as a 3-, 4-, or 8-byte integer ID in network byte order.</p> </dd> |