In this patch series we add functionality for getting UDP media specific
bearer options and adding UDP remoteip addresses used for replicasting.
tipc-discussion
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I also encountered the iproute2 build problem so until this series
is ready for iproute2 submission it's based on c13b6b0
In this patch we introduce the ability to get UDP specific bearer
options such as remoteip, remoteport, localip and localport.
After some discussions on tipc-discussion on how to handle media
specific options we agreed to pass them after the media.
For media generic bearer options we already do:
Automatically learn UDP remote IP addresses of communicating peers by
looking at the source IP address of incoming TIPC link configuration
messages (neighbor discovery).
This makes configuration slightly easier and removes the problematic
scenario where a node receives directly addressed neighbor
Local ip is not required to identify a UDP bearer and shouldn't be
passed to bearer disable, set or get. In this patch we remove the
localip entry from the synopsis of these functions.
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
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man/man8/tipc-bearer.8 | 14 --
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10
Split the UDP send function into two. One callback that prepares the
skb and one transmit function that sends the skb. This will come in
handy in later patches, when we introduce UDP replicast.
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
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net/tipc/udp_media.c | 50
Introduce the ability to add remote IP addresses to an existing UDP
bearer. On the kernel side, adding a "remoteip" to an existing bearer
puts the bearer in "replicast" mode where TIPC multicast messages are
send out to each configured remoteip using unicast. This is required
for TIPC UDP bearers t
Introduce a generic function (nl_add_bearer_name()) that identifies a
bearer and adds it to an existing netlink message. This reduces code
complexity and makes the code a little bit easier to maintain.
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
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tipc/bearer.c | 312 --
Split the UDP netlink parse function so that it only parses one
netlink attribute at the time. This makes the parse function more
generic and allow future UDP API functions to use it for parsing.
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
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net/tipc/udp_media.c | 112 +
This patch introduces UDP replicast. A concept where we emulate
multicast by sending multiple unicast messages to configured peers.
The purpose of replicast is mainly to be able to use TIPC in cloud
environments where IP multicast is disabled. Using replicas to unicast
multicast messages is costly
When using replicast a UDP bearer can have an arbitrary amount of
remote ip addresses associated with it. This means we cannot simply
add all remote ip addresses to an existing bearer data message as it
might fill the message, leaving us with a truncated message that we
can't safely resume. To hand
Add UDP bearer options to netlink bearer get message. This is used by
the tipc user space tool to display UDP options.
The UDP bearer information is passed using either a sockaddr_in or
sockaddr_in6 structs. This means the user space receiver should
intermediately store the retrieved data in a lar
This series does some preparation and introduces UDP replicast. A concept
where we emulate multicast by sending multiple unicast messages to
configured peers. This is required for TIPC to work in environments where
IP multicast is disabled.
There is a corresponding patch series for the tipc user s
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