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rename from Documentation/networking/ila.txt
rename to Documentation/networking/ila.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===================================
Identifier Locator Addressing (ILA)
+===================================
Introduction
@@ -26,11 +30,13 @@ The ILA protocol is described in Internet-Draft draft-herbert-intarea-ila.
ILA terminology
===============
- - Identifier A number that identifies an addressable node in the network
+ - Identifier
+ A number that identifies an addressable node in the network
independent of its location. ILA identifiers are sixty-four
bit values.
- - Locator A network prefix that routes to a physical host. Locators
+ - Locator
+ A network prefix that routes to a physical host. Locators
provide the topological location of an addressed node. ILA
locators are sixty-four bit prefixes.
@@ -51,17 +57,20 @@ ILA terminology
bits) and an identifier (low order sixty-four bits). ILA
addresses are never visible to an application.
- - ILA host An end host that is capable of performing ILA translations
+ - ILA host
+ An end host that is capable of performing ILA translations
on transmit or receive.
- - ILA router A network node that performs ILA translation and forwarding
+ - ILA router
+ A network node that performs ILA translation and forwarding
of translated packets.
- ILA forwarding cache
A type of ILA router that only maintains a working set
cache of mappings.
- - ILA node A network node capable of performing ILA translations. This
+ - ILA node
+ A network node capable of performing ILA translations. This
can be an ILA router, ILA forwarding cache, or ILA host.
@@ -82,18 +91,18 @@ Configuration and datapath for these two points of deployment is somewhat
different.
The diagram below illustrates the flow of packets through ILA as well
-as showing ILA hosts and routers.
+as showing ILA hosts and routers::
+--------+ +--------+
| Host A +-+ +--->| Host B |
| | | (2) ILA (') | |
+--------+ | ...addressed.... ( ) +--------+
- V +---+--+ . packet . +---+--+ (_)
+ V +---+--+ . packet . +---+--+ (_)
(1) SIR | | ILA |----->-------->---->| ILA | | (3) SIR
addressed +->|router| . . |router|->-+ addressed
packet +---+--+ . IPv6 . +---+--+ packet
- / . Network .
- / . . +--+-++--------+
+ / . Network .
+ / . . +--+-++--------+
+--------+ / . . |ILA || Host |
| Host +--+ . .- -|host|| |
| | . . +--+-++--------+
@@ -173,7 +182,7 @@ ILA address, never a SIR address.
In the simplest format the identifier types, C-bit, and checksum
adjustment value are not present so an identifier is considered an
-unstructured sixty-four bit value.
+unstructured sixty-four bit value::
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Identifier |
@@ -184,7 +193,7 @@ unstructured sixty-four bit value.
The checksum neutral adjustment may be configured to always be
present using neutral-map-auto. In this case there is no C-bit, but the
checksum adjustment is in the low order 16 bits. The identifier is
-still sixty-four bits.
+still sixty-four bits::
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Identifier |
@@ -193,7 +202,7 @@ still sixty-four bits.
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The C-bit may used to explicitly indicate that checksum neutral
-mapping has been applied to an ILA address. The format is:
+mapping has been applied to an ILA address. The format is::
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |C| Identifier |
@@ -204,7 +213,7 @@ mapping has been applied to an ILA address. The format is:
The identifier type field may be present to indicate the identifier
type. If it is not present then the type is inferred based on mapping
configuration. The checksum neutral adjustment may automatically
-used with the identifier type as illustrated below.
+used with the identifier type as illustrated below::
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type| Identifier |
@@ -213,7 +222,7 @@ used with the identifier type as illustrated below.
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
If the identifier type and the C-bit can be present simultaneously so
-the identifier format would be:
+the identifier format would be::
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type|C| Identifier |
@@ -258,28 +267,30 @@ same meanings as described above.
Some examples
=============
-# Configure an ILA route that uses checksum neutral mapping as well
-# as type field. Note that the type field is set in the SIR address
-# (the 2000 implies type is 1 which is LUID).
-ip route add 3333:0:0:1:2000:0:1:87/128 encap ila 2001:0:87:0 \
- csum-mode neutral-map ident-type use-format
+::
-# Configure an ILA LWT route that uses auto checksum neutral mapping
-# (no C-bit) and configure identifier type to be LUID so that the
-# identifier type field will not be present.
-ip route add 3333:0:0:1:2000:0:2:87/128 encap ila 2001:0:87:1 \
- csum-mode neutral-map-auto ident-type luid
+ # Configure an ILA route that uses checksum neutral mapping as well
+ # as type field. Note that the type field is set in the SIR address
+ # (the 2000 implies type is 1 which is LUID).
+ ip route add 3333:0:0:1:2000:0:1:87/128 encap ila 2001:0:87:0 \
+ csum-mode neutral-map ident-type use-format
-ila_xlat configuration
+ # Configure an ILA LWT route that uses auto checksum neutral mapping
+ # (no C-bit) and configure identifier type to be LUID so that the
+ # identifier type field will not be present.
+ ip route add 3333:0:0:1:2000:0:2:87/128 encap ila 2001:0:87:1 \
+ csum-mode neutral-map-auto ident-type luid
-# Configure an ILA to SIR mapping that matches a locator and overwrites
-# it with a SIR address (3333:0:0:1 in this example). The C-bit and
-# identifier field are used.
-ip ila add loc_match 2001:0:119:0 loc 3333:0:0:1 \
- csum-mode neutral-map-auto ident-type use-format
+ ila_xlat configuration
-# Configure an ILA to SIR mapping where checksum neutral is automatically
-# set without the C-bit and the identifier type is configured to be LUID
-# so that the identifier type field is not present.
-ip ila add loc_match 2001:0:119:0 loc 3333:0:0:1 \
- csum-mode neutral-map-auto ident-type use-format
+ # Configure an ILA to SIR mapping that matches a locator and overwrites
+ # it with a SIR address (3333:0:0:1 in this example). The C-bit and
+ # identifier field are used.
+ ip ila add loc_match 2001:0:119:0 loc 3333:0:0:1 \
+ csum-mode neutral-map-auto ident-type use-format
+
+ # Configure an ILA to SIR mapping where checksum neutral is automatically
+ # set without the C-bit and the identifier type is configured to be LUID
+ # so that the identifier type field is not present.
+ ip ila add loc_match 2001:0:119:0 loc 3333:0:0:1 \
+ csum-mode neutral-map-auto ident-type use-format
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Contents:
gen_stats
gtp
hinic
+ ila
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- add SPDX header; - adjust title markup; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> --- Documentation/networking/{ila.txt => ila.rst} | 81 +++++++++++-------- Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) rename Documentation/networking/{ila.txt => ila.rst} (82%)