</refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Supported netdev kinds</title>
+
+ <para>The following kinds of virtual network devices may be configured in <filename>.netdev</filename> files:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>bond</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A bond device is an aggregation of all its slave devices. See
+ <ulink url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt">
+ Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver HOWTO</ulink> for details.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>bridge</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A bridge devcie is a software switch, each of its slave devices and the bridge itself are ports of the switch.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>dummy</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A dummy device drops all packets sent to it.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>gre</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A Level 3 GRE tunnel over IPv4. See
+ <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2784">
+ RFC 2784</ulink> for details.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>gretap</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv4.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>ip6gre</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A Level 3 GRE tunnel over IPv6.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>ip6tnl</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An IPv4 or IPv6 tunnel over IPv6</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>ip6gretap</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv6.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>ipip</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An IPv4 over IPv4 tunnel.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>ipvlan</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An ipvlan device is a stacked device which receives packets from its
+ underlying device based on IP address filtering.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>macvlan</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A macvlan device is a stacked device which receives packets from its
+ underlying device based on MAC address filtering.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>sit</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>tap</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A persistent Level 2 tunnel between a network device and a device node.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>tun</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A persistent Level 3 tunnel between a network device and a device node.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>veth</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An ethernet tunnel between a pair of network devices.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>vlan</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A vlan is a stacked device which receives packets from its underlying
+ device based on VLAN tagging. See
+ <ulink url="http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1Q.html">
+ IEEE 802.1Q</ulink> for details.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>vti</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An IPv4 over IPSec tunnel.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>vxlan</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </refsect1>
+
<refsect1>
<title>[Match] Section Options</title>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Kind=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>The netdev kind. Currently, <literal>bridge</literal>,
- <literal>bond</literal>, <literal>vlan</literal>,
- <literal>macvlan</literal>,
- <literal>ipvlan</literal>, <literal>vxlan</literal>,
- <literal>ipip</literal>, <literal>gre</literal>,
- <literal>gretap</literal>, <literal>sit</literal>,
- <literal>vti</literal>, <literal>veth</literal>,
- <literal>tun</literal>, <literal>tap</literal> and
- <literal>dummy</literal>
- are supported. This option is compulsory.</para>
+ <para>The netdev kind. This option is compulsory. See the <literal>Supported netdev kinds</literal> section
+ for the valid keys.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Mode=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>IPv6 tunnels can have three mode
- <literal>ip6ip6</literal>
- <literal>ipip6</literal>,
- <literal>any</literal>
+ <para>An <literal>ip6tnl</literal> tunnels can have three modes
+ <literal>ip6ip6</literal> for IPv6 over IPv6,
+ <literal>ipip6</literal> for IPv4 over IPv6 or
+ <literal>any</literal> for either.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>Mode=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The mode specifies the ip6 tunnel protocol. Supported type are </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
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