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authorNeale Ranns <neale@graphiant.com>2021-02-05 09:04:35 +0000
committerOle Tr�an <otroan@employees.org>2022-01-28 10:46:31 +0000
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linux-cp: Linux Control Plane Netlink Listener
Type: feature please see FEATURE.yaml for details. Signed-off-by: Neale Ranns <nranns@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Smith <mgsmith@netgate.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@netgate.com> Signed-off-by: Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.nl> Signed-off-by: Neale Ranns <neale@graphiant.com> Change-Id: I6255fd9953d0b03e6b4fe75b67a6845a7c206f74 Signed-off-by: Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.nl>
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@@ -42,10 +42,7 @@ interfaces. Any configuration that is made on these Linux interfaces,
also needs to be applied on the corresponding physical interface in
VPP.
-This is functionality is not provided in this plugin, but it can be
-achieved in various ways, for example by listening to the netlink
-messages and applying the config. As a result all e.g. routes
-programmed in Linux, will also be present in VPP's FIB.
+This is functionality is provided by the "linux_nl" plugin.
Linux will own the [ARP/ND] neighbor tables (which will be copied via
netlink to VPP also). This means that Linux will send packets with the