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Part 1 -- notes in https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/08/13/vpp-2.html
Add the ability for VPP to copy out (sync) its state from the dataplane
to Linux Interface Pairs, when they exist. Gated by a configuration
flag (linux-cp { lcp-sync }), and by a CLI option to toggle on/off,
synchronize the following events:
- Interface state changes
- Interface MTU changes
- Interface IPv4/IPv6 address add/deletion
In VPP, subints can have any link state and MTU, orthogonal to their
phy. In Linux, setting admin-down on a phy forces its children to be
down as well. Also, in Linux, MTU of children must not exceed that of
the phy. Add a state synchronizer which walks over phy+subints to
ensure Linux and VPP end up in the same consistent state.
Part 2 -- notes in https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/08/15/vpp-3.html
Add the ability for VPP to autocreate sub-interfaces of existing Linux
Interface pairs. Gated by a configuration flag
(linux-cp { lcp-auto-subint }), and by a CLI option to toggle on/off,
synchronize the following event:
- Sub-interface creation (dot1q, dot1ad, QinQ and QinAD)
A few other changes:
- Add two functions into netlink.[ch] to delete ip4 and ip6 addresses.
- Remove a spurious logline (printing MTU) in netlink.c.
- Resolve a TODO around vnet_sw_interface_supports_addressing()
Type: improvement
Signed-off-by: Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.nl>
Change-Id: I34fc070e80af4013be58d7a8cbf64296cc760e4e
Signed-off-by: Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.nl>
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Linux Control Plane interface creation logic is currently only able to
create untagged interfaces, and dot1q VLAN sub-interfaces. This change
makes it possible to create dot1ad VLAN sub-ints, and Q-in-AD as well
as Q-in-Q sub-interfaces as well.
It makes the plugin a bit more robust by catching a few common errors,
such as creating an lcp on a sub-interface without its parent having
one, and creating an lcp on a sub-interface that is not exact-match.
This change has a bunch of smaller improvemnets as well. I documented
my work in this post:
https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/08/12/vpp-1.html
It shows that after the change is merged, all VPP interface types now
create and operate cleanly as LCP interfaces as well.
Type: improvement
Signed-off-by: Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.nl>
Change-Id: I322669f7316d44c227090b83d6a574fb9c00e76a
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