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authorXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>2020-10-29 15:05:01 +0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2020-10-30 15:24:06 -0700
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sctp: add encap_port for netns sock asoc and transport
encap_port is added as per netns/sock/assoc/transport, and the latter one's encap_port inherits the former one's by default. The transport's encap_port value would mostly decide if one packet should go out with udp encapsulated or not. This patch also allows users to set netns' encap_port by sysctl. v1->v2: - Change to define encap_port as __be16 for sctp_sock, asoc and transport. v2->v3: - No change. v3->v4: - Add 'encap_port' entry in ip-sysctl.rst. v4->v5: - Improve the description of encap_port in ip-sysctl.rst. Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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@@ -2642,6 +2642,22 @@ addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
Default: 1
+encap_port - INTEGER
+ The default remote UDP encapsulation port.
+
+ This value is used to set the dest port of the UDP header for the
+ outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets by default. Users can also
+ change the value for each sock/asoc/transport by using setsockopt.
+ For further information, please refer to RFC6951.
+
+ Note that when connecting to a remote server, the client should set
+ this to the port that the UDP tunneling sock on the peer server is
+ listening to and the local UDP tunneling sock on the client also
+ must be started. On the server, it would get the encap_port from
+ the incoming packet's source port.
+
+ Default: 0
+
``/proc/sys/net/core/*``
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