Let's use the new flag wherever we read key material/passphrases/hashes
off disk, so that people can plug in their own IPC service as backend if
they like, easily.
(My main goal was actually to support this for crypttab key files — i.e.
that you can specify AF_UNIX sockets as third column in crypttab — but
that's harder to implement, since the keys are read via libcryptsetup's
API, not ours.)
Add support for creating a MACVLAN interface in "source" mode by
specifying Mode=source in the [MACVLAN] section of a .netdev file.
A list of allowed MAC addresses for the corresponding MACVLAN can also
be specified with the SourceMACAddress= option of the [MACVLAN] section.
An example .netdev file:
[NetDev]
Name=macvlan0
Kind=macvlan
MACAddress=02:DE:AD:BE:EF:00
[MACVLAN]
Mode=source
SourceMACAddress=02:AB:AB:AB:AB:01 02:CD:CD:CD:CD:01
SourceMACAddress=02:EF:EF:EF:EF:01
The same keys can also be specified in [MACVTAP] for MACVTAP kinds of
interfaces, with the same semantics.
For users, the square brackets already serve as markup and clearly delineate
the section name from surrounding text. Putting additional markup around that
only adds clutter. Also, we were very inconsistent in using the quotes. Let's
just drop them altogether.
Since kernel 5.2, netdevsim creation/destruction via netlink is removed.
So, let's remove the netdevsim support from our documents.
See below commit for more details.
e05b2d141f
Intermediate Functional Block
The Intermediate Functional Block (ifb) pseudo network interface acts as a QoS concentrator for multiple different sources of traffic. Packets from or to other interfaces have to be redirected to it using the mirred action in order to be handled, regularly routed traffic will be dropped. This way, a single stack of qdiscs, classes and filters can be shared between multiple interfaces.
Here's a simple example to feed incoming traffic from multiple interfaces through a Stochastic Fairness Queue (sfq):
(1) # modprobe ifb
(2) # ip link set ifb0 up
(3) # tc qdisc add dev ifb0 root sfq
