</refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Supported netdev kinds</title>
+
+ <para>The following kinds of virtual network devices may be configured in <filename>.netdev</filename> files:</para>
+
+ <table>
+ <title>Supported kinds of virtual network devices</title>
+
+ <tgroup cols='2'>
+ <colspec colname='kind' />
+ <colspec colname='explanation' />
+ <thead><row>
+ <entry>Kind</entry>
+ <entry>Description</entry>
+ </row></thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row><entry><varname>bond</varname></entry>
+ <entry>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.Local configuration</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>bridge</varname></entry>
+ <entry>A bridge devcie is a software switch, each of its slave devices and the bridge itself are ports of the switch.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>dummy</varname></entry>
+ <entry>A dummy device drops all packets sent to it.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>gre</varname></entry>
+ <entry>A Level 3 GRE tunnel over IPv4. See <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2784">RFC 2784</ulink> for details.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>gretap</varname></entry>
+ <entry>A Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv4.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>ip6gre</varname></entry>
+ <entry>A Level 3 GRE tunnel over IPv6.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>ip6tnl</varname></entry>
+ <entry>An IPv4 or IPv6 tunnel over IPv6</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>ip6gretap</varname></entry>
+ <entry>An Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv6.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>ipip</varname></entry>
+ <entry>An IPv4 over IPv4 tunnel.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>ipvlan</varname></entry>
+ <entry>An ipvlan device is a stacked device which receives packets from its underlying device based on IP address filtering.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>macvlan</varname></entry>
+ <entry>A macvlan device is a stacked device which receives packets from its underlying device based on MAC address filtering.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>sit</varname></entry>
+ <entry>An IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>tap</varname></entry>
+ <entry>A persistent Level 2 tunnel between a network device and a device node.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>tun</varname></entry>
+ <entry>A persistent Level 3 tunnel between a network device and a device node.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>veth</varname></entry>
+ <entry>An ethernet tunnel between a pair of network devices.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>vlan</varname></entry>
+ <entry>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.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>vti</varname></entry>
+ <entry>An IPv4 over IPSec tunnel.</entry></row>
+
+ <row><entry><varname>vxlan</varname></entry>
+ <entry>A virtual extensible LAN (vxlan), for connecting Cloud computing deployments.</entry></row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+
+ </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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