Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:21:22AM +1000, Philip Craig wrote:
>
>>Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>
>>>+ To configure tunnels an extra tool is required. You can download
>>>+ it from http://zlug.fh-zwickau.de/~joro/projects/ under the
>>>+ EtherIP section. If unsure, say N.
>>
>>To obtain a list of tunnels, this tool calls SIOCGETTUNNEL
>>(SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 0) for every device in /proc/net/dev. I don't think
>>this is safe, but I don't have a solution for you.
>
>
> You are right. But this is the way the ipip driver does it. In the case
> of ipip it is safe, because it is visible as a tunnel interface to
> userspace. But my driver registers its devices as Ethernet (it has to,
> otherwise the devices will not be usable in a bridge). There is no safe
> way to distinguish between real Ethernet devices and devices registered
> by my driver. I think about implementing an ioctl to fetch a list of
> all EtherIP tunnel devices from the driver.
Just do what ipip and gre do, use a network device with a fixed name
for the ioctl (you already have the ethip0 device for this purpose it
appears).
>>Is there a reason why you have a separate tool rather than modifying
>>iproute2?
>
>
> I wrote an own tool for testing. At development I wanted to concentrate
> on the driver and not how to modify iproute2. But when the driver
> becomes stable and may be included I will add it to iproute2.
The iproute changes are only a few lines, just add the ethip0 device to
the do_add, do_del, ... commands and set the protocol to IPPROTO_ETHERIP
when an etherip tunnel is requested.
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