Tunnel metadata manipulation action in tc(8)                           Linux                          Tunnel metadata manipulation action in tc(8)

NAME

       tunnel_key - Tunnel metadata manipulation

SYNOPSIS

       tc ... action tunnel_key { unset | SET }

       SET := set src_ip ADDRESS dst_ip ADDRESS id KEY_ID dst_port UDP_PORT [ csum | nocsum ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  tunnel_key  action combined with a shared IP tunnel device, allows to perform IP tunnel en- or decapsulation on a packet, reflected by
       the operation modes UNSET and SET.  The UNSET mode is optional - even without using it, the metadata information will be released automati-
       cally  when packet processing will be finished.  UNSET function could be used in cases when traffic is forwarded between two tunnels, where
       the metadata from the first tunnel will be used for encapsulation done by the second tunnel.  SET mode requires the source and  destination
       ip  ADDRESS  and  the  tunnel  key  id KEY_ID which will be used by the ip tunnel shared device to create the tunnel header. The tunnel_key
       action is useful only in combination with a mirred redirect action to a shared IP tunnel device which will use the metadata (for SET )  and
       unset the metadata created by it (for UNSET ).

OPTIONS

       unset  Unset  the  tunnel metadata created by the IP tunnel device.  This function is not mandatory and might be used only in some specific
              use cases (as explained above).

       set    Set tunnel metadata to be used by the IP tunnel device. Requires id , src_ip and dst_ip options.  dst_port is optional.

              id     Tunnel ID (for example VNI in VXLAN tunnel)

              src_ip Outer header source IP address (IPv4 or IPv6)

              dst_ip Outer header destination IP address (IPv4 or IPv6)

              dst_port
                     Outer header destination UDP port

              [no]csum
                     Controlls outer UDP checksum. When set to csum (which is default), the outer UDP checksum is calculated and included  in  the
                     packets.  When set to nocsum, outer UDP checksum is zero. Note that when using zero UDP checksums with IPv6, the other tunnel
                     endpoint must be configured to accept such packets.  In Linux, this would be the udp6zerocsumrx option for the  VXLAN  tunnel
                     interface.

                     If  using  nocsum  with  IPv6, be sure you know what you are doing. Zero UDP checksums provide weaker protection against cor-
                     rupted packets. See RFC6935 for details.

EXAMPLES

       The following example encapsulates incoming ICMP packets on eth0 into a vxlan tunnel, by setting metadata to VNI 11,  source  IP  11.11.0.1
       and  destination  IP  11.11.0.2,  and  by redirecting the packet with the metadata to device vxlan0, which will do the actual encapsulation
       using the metadata:

              #tc qdisc add dev eth0 handle ffff: ingress
              #tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip parent ffff: 
                flower 
                  ip_proto icmp 
                action tunnel_key set 
                  src_ip 11.11.0.1 
                  dst_ip 11.11.0.2 
                  id 11 
                action mirred egress redirect dev vxlan0

       Here is an example of the unset function: Incoming VXLAN traffic with outer IP's and VNI 11 is decapsulated by vxlan0 and metadata is unset
       before redirecting to tunl1 device:

              #tc qdisc add dev eth0 handle ffff: ingress
              #tc filter add dev vxlan0 protocol ip parent ffff:   flower 
                     enc_src_ip 11.11.0.2 enc_dst_ip 11.11.0.1 enc_key_id 11   action tunnel_key unset  action mirred egress redirect dev tunl1

SEE ALSO

       tc(8)

iproute2                                                            10 Nov 2016                       Tunnel metadata manipulation action in tc(8)