+ <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>
+