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mpls: Add a sysctl to control the size of the mpls label table This sysctl gives two benefits. By defaulting the table size to 0 mpls even when compiled in and enabled defaults to not forwarding any packets. This prevents unpleasant surprises for users. The other benefit is that as mpls labels are allocated locally a dense table a small dense label table may be used which saves memory and is extremely simple and efficient to implement. This sysctl allows userspace to choose the restrictions on the label table size userspace applications need to cope with. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-04 01:11:20 +00:00
/proc/sys/net/mpls/* Variables:
platform_labels - INTEGER
Number of entries in the platform label table. It is not
possible to configure forwarding for label values equal to or
greater than the number of platform labels.
Documentation/networking: fix typo in mpls-sysctl s/utliziation/utilization Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-02 17:52:24 +00:00
A dense utilization of the entries in the platform label table
is possible and expected as the platform labels are locally
mpls: Add a sysctl to control the size of the mpls label table This sysctl gives two benefits. By defaulting the table size to 0 mpls even when compiled in and enabled defaults to not forwarding any packets. This prevents unpleasant surprises for users. The other benefit is that as mpls labels are allocated locally a dense table a small dense label table may be used which saves memory and is extremely simple and efficient to implement. This sysctl allows userspace to choose the restrictions on the label table size userspace applications need to cope with. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-04 01:11:20 +00:00
allocated.
If the number of platform label table entries is set to 0 no
label will be recognized by the kernel and mpls forwarding
will be disabled.
Reducing this value will remove all label routing entries that
no longer fit in the table.
Possible values: 0 - 1048575
Default: 0
mpls: Per-device enabling of packet input An MPLS network is a single trust domain where the edges must be in control of what labels make their way into the core. The simplest way of ensuring this is for the edge device to always impose the labels, and not allow forward labeled traffic from untrusted neighbours. This is achieved by allowing a per-device configuration of whether MPLS traffic input from that interface should be processed or not. To be secure by default, the default state is changed to MPLS being disabled on all interfaces unless explicitly enabled and no global option is provided to change the default. Whilst this differs from other protocols (e.g. IPv6), network operators are used to explicitly enabling MPLS forwarding on interfaces, and with the number of links to the MPLS core typically fairly low this doesn't present too much of a burden on operators. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-22 10:14:38 +00:00
mpls: allow TTL propagation to IP packets to be configured Provide the ability to control on a per-route basis whether the TTL value from an MPLS packet is propagated to an IPv4/IPv6 packet when the last label is popped as per the theoretical model in RFC 3443 through a new route attribute, RTA_TTL_PROPAGATE which can be 0 to mean disable propagation and 1 to mean enable propagation. In order to provide the ability to change the behaviour for packets arriving with IPv4/IPv6 Explicit Null labels and to provide an easy way for a user to change the behaviour for all existing routes without having to reprogram them, a global knob is provided. This is done through the addition of a new per-namespace sysctl, "net.mpls.ip_ttl_propagate", which defaults to enabled. If the per-route attribute is set (either enabled or disabled) then it overrides the global configuration. Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-03-10 20:43:24 +00:00
ip_ttl_propagate - BOOL
Control whether TTL is propagated from the IPv4/IPv6 header to
the MPLS header on imposing labels and propagated from the
MPLS header to the IPv4/IPv6 header on popping the last label.
If disabled, the MPLS transport network will appear as a
single hop to transit traffic.
0 - disabled / RFC 3443 [Short] Pipe Model
1 - enabled / RFC 3443 Uniform Model (default)
Documentation/networking: fix default_ttl typo in mpls-sysctl default_ttl should be integer instead of bool Reported-by: Ying Xu <yinxu@redhat.com> Fixes: a59166e47086 ("mpls: allow TTL propagation from IP packets to be configured") Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-07-01 08:45:28 +00:00
default_ttl - INTEGER
mpls: allow TTL propagation from IP packets to be configured Allow TTL propagation from IP packets to MPLS packets to be configured. Add a new optional LWT attribute, MPLS_IPTUNNEL_TTL, which allows the TTL to be set in the resulting MPLS packet, with the value of 0 having the semantics of enabling propagation of the TTL from the IP header (i.e. non-zero values disable propagation). Also allow the configuration to be overridden globally by reusing the same sysctl to control whether the TTL is propagated from IP packets into the MPLS header. If the per-LWT attribute is set then it overrides the global configuration. If the TTL isn't propagated then a default TTL value is used which can be configured via a new sysctl, "net.mpls.default_ttl". This is kept separate from the configuration of whether IP TTL propagation is enabled as it can be used in the future when non-IP payloads are supported (i.e. where there is no payload TTL that can be propagated). Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-03-10 20:43:25 +00:00
Default TTL value to use for MPLS packets where it cannot be
propagated from an IP header, either because one isn't present
or ip_ttl_propagate has been disabled.
Possible values: 1 - 255
Default: 255
mpls: Per-device enabling of packet input An MPLS network is a single trust domain where the edges must be in control of what labels make their way into the core. The simplest way of ensuring this is for the edge device to always impose the labels, and not allow forward labeled traffic from untrusted neighbours. This is achieved by allowing a per-device configuration of whether MPLS traffic input from that interface should be processed or not. To be secure by default, the default state is changed to MPLS being disabled on all interfaces unless explicitly enabled and no global option is provided to change the default. Whilst this differs from other protocols (e.g. IPv6), network operators are used to explicitly enabling MPLS forwarding on interfaces, and with the number of links to the MPLS core typically fairly low this doesn't present too much of a burden on operators. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-22 10:14:38 +00:00
conf/<interface>/input - BOOL
Control whether packets can be input on this interface.
If disabled, packets will be discarded without further
processing.
0 - disabled (default)
not 0 - enabled
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