On 08/29/15 at 10:55am, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:39:29 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > Can we fix VXLAN instead? It should be possible to receive and send both
> > v4 and v6 frames and represent it with metadata on a single socket.
> 
> That's actually what I intend to do next. But I need the flag and this
> patch for that. If IPv6 is enabled, I'll open two sockets within a
> single vxlan_sock for metadata based vxlan, IPv4 one and IPv6 one. It
> would be easier to just open an IPv6 socket and receive both IPv4 and
> IPv6 traffic through it but unfortunately, this depends on bindv6only
> sysctl. We don't want to have IPv4 vxlan broken if bindv6only is set.
> Therefore, we need two sockets, and the IPv6 one needs to be v6only.

Awesome, sounds great.
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