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Author SHA1 Message Date
Chris Elston
f9bac8df90 l2tp: netlink api for l2tpv3 ipv6 unmanaged tunnels
This patch adds support for unmanaged L2TPv3 tunnels over IPv6 using
the netlink API. We already support unmanaged L2TPv3 tunnels over
IPv4. A patch to iproute2 to make use of this feature will be
submitted separately.

Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <celston@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-01 09:30:55 -04:00
Ben Hutchings
bcb949b884 headers, net: Use __kernel_sa_family_t in more definitions shared with userland
Complete the work started with commit
6602a4baf4 ('net: Make userland include
of netlink.h more sane').

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-26 12:02:50 -04:00
James Chapman
309795f4be l2tp: Add netlink control API for L2TP
In L2TPv3, we need to create/delete/modify/query L2TP tunnel and
session contexts. The number of parameters is significant. So let's
use netlink. Userspace uses this API to control L2TP tunnel/session
contexts in the kernel.

The previous pppol2tp driver was managed using [gs]etsockopt(). This
API is retained for backwards compatibility. Unlike L2TPv2 which
carries only PPP frames, L2TPv3 can carry raw ethernet frames or other
frame types and these do not always have an associated socket
family. Therefore, we need a way to use L2TP sessions that doesn't
require a socket type for each supported frame type. Hence netlink is
used.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-03 14:56:05 -07:00
James Chapman
0d76751fad l2tp: Add L2TPv3 IP encapsulation (no UDP) support
This patch adds a new L2TPIP socket family and modifies the core to
handle the case where there is no UDP header in the L2TP
packet. L2TP/IP uses IP protocol 115. Since L2TP/UDP and L2TP/IP
packets differ in layout, the datapath packet handling code needs
changes too. Userspace uses an L2TPIP socket instead of a UDP socket
when IP encapsulation is required.

We can't use raw sockets for this because the semantics of raw sockets
don't lend themselves to the socket-per-tunnel model - we need to

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-03 14:56:04 -07:00