X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd.netdev.xml;h=e278aa1a8084066d4cde915e92f93e88442a6041;hb=bca81be7755d15e7369d764bfa94a7ca6c595c76;hp=ca505586448f11e98852e9b9be910eae49a32626;hpb=1af2536acf8aecc3eb940d04268a419c956ee10a;p=elogind.git diff --git a/man/systemd.netdev.xml b/man/systemd.netdev.xml index ca5055864..e278aa1a8 100644 --- a/man/systemd.netdev.xml +++ b/man/systemd.netdev.xml @@ -83,6 +83,81 @@ + + Supported netdev kinds + + The following kinds of virtual network devices may be configured in .netdev files: + + + Supported kinds of virtual network devices + + + + + + Kind + Description + + + bond + A bond device is an aggregation of all its slave devices. See Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver HOWTO for details.Local configuration + + bridge + A bridge devcie is a software switch, each of its slave devices and the bridge itself are ports of the switch. + + dummy + A dummy device drops all packets sent to it. + + gre + A Level 3 GRE tunnel over IPv4. See RFC 2784 for details. + + gretap + A Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv4. + + ip6gre + A Level 3 GRE tunnel over IPv6. + + ip6tnl + An IPv4 or IPv6 tunnel over IPv6 + + ip6gretap + An Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv6. + + ipip + An IPv4 over IPv4 tunnel. + + ipvlan + An ipvlan device is a stacked device which receives packets from its underlying device based on IP address filtering. + + macvlan + A macvlan device is a stacked device which receives packets from its underlying device based on MAC address filtering. + + sit + An IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel. + + tap + A persistent Level 2 tunnel between a network device and a device node. + + tun + A persistent Level 3 tunnel between a network device and a device node. + + veth + An ethernet tunnel between a pair of network devices. + + vlan + A VLAN is a stacked device which receives packets from its underlying device based on VLAN tagging. See IEEE 802.1Q for details. + + vti + An IPv4 over IPSec tunnel. + + vxlan + A virtual extensible LAN (vxlan), for connecting Cloud computing deployments. + + +
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+ [Match] Section Options @@ -161,16 +236,8 @@ Kind= - The netdev kind. Currently, bridge, - bond, vlan, - macvlan, - ipvlan, vxlan, - ipip, gre, - gretap, sit, - vti, veth, - tun, tap and - dummy - are supported. This option is compulsory. + The netdev kind. This option is compulsory. See the Supported netdev kinds section + for the valid keys. @@ -331,7 +398,8 @@ The [Tunnel] section only applies for netdevs of kind ipip, sit, gre, gretap, - and vti and accepts the following keys: + ip6gre, ip6gretap, vti and ip6tnl + and accepts the following keys: @@ -373,6 +441,16 @@ A boolean. When true, enables Path MTU Discovery on the tunnel. + + Mode= + + An ip6tnl tunnels can have three modes + ip6ip6 for IPv6 over IPv6, + ipip6 for IPv4 over IPv6 or + any for either. + + +