From patchwork Tue Oct 30 20:27:16 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: vxlan: allow a user to set TTL value From: Vincent Bernat X-Patchwork-Id: 195622 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Message-Id: <1351628836-23094-1-git-send-email-bernat@luffy.cx> To: Stephen Hemminger , David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Vincent Bernat Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:27:16 +0100 "ip link add ... type vxlan ... ttl X" allows a user to set the TTL used by a VXLAN for encapsulation. The provided value was ignored by vxlan module and the default value of 1 was used when encapsulating multicast packets. Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger --- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c index 607976c..030559d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c @@ -1107,6 +1107,9 @@ static int vxlan_newlink(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_TOS]) vxlan->tos = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_VXLAN_TOS]); + if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_TTL]) + vxlan->ttl = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_VXLAN_TTL]); + if (!data[IFLA_VXLAN_LEARNING] || nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_VXLAN_LEARNING])) vxlan->learn = true;