Re: vxlan: how to expose opt-in RFC conformity with unprocessed header flags

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Jan 16 2024 - 11:24:07 EST


On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:13:22 +0100 Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> What would be the accepted way to add a switch of making this RFC conform in
> an opt-in way? A module parameter? A sysfs entry? Through netlink?

Thru netlink. My intuition would be to try to add a "ignore
bits" mask, rather than "RFC compliance knob" because RFCs
may have shorter lifespan than kernel's uAPI guarantees..