Bug 1329730

Summary:	[RFE] support for lightweight (metadata) tunnels
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Lance Richardson <lrichard>
Component:	iproute	Assignee:	Phil Sutter <psutter>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jaroslav Aster <jaster>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:	Ioanna Gkioka <igkioka>
Priority:	low
Version:	7.3	CC:	aloughla, atragler, egarver, jaster, jbenc, jtluka, mleitner, omoris, psutter, rkhan, sukulkar
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	iproute-3.10.0-75.el7	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	"iproute" now supports lightweight tunnels With this update, support for lightweight tunnels has been added to the "iproute" command. This allows users to manually create lightweight tunnels on the command line.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	1428426 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2017-06-16 14:15:59 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	1323132, 1393481, 1428426

Description Lance Richardson 2016-04-22 18:39:55 UTC

Description of problem:
Need iproute2 support for lightweight tunnels, including Geneve.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ip link add gnv1 type geneve dstport 4789 external
2.
3.

Actual results:
# ip link add gnv1 type geneve dstport 4789 external
Garbage instead of arguments "dstport ...". Try "ip link help".


Expected results:
Successful execution of command.

Additional info:
Dependency on this BZ for kernel support:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283886

Comment 7 Phil Sutter 2017-02-23 15:32:13 UTC

*** Bug 1425061 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Jiri Benc 2017-06-08 17:44:49 UTC

I filed bug 1459975 to remove this.