[hipl-users] Re: BEET Patch
- From: fmoreira@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: hipl-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:09:00 +0000
Hello, thanks for the explaination.
I have just one more doubt:
I can only find Beet Simple and Interfamily patch for linux kernel 2.6.13 and
above but the latest linux hipl patch i can find is for 2.6.10
What should i do?
Thank you
-Fernando
Quoting Diego Beltrami <Diego.Beltrami@xxxxxxx>:
> Quoting fmoreira@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I've been testing OpenHIP and i'm going to start some tests with hipl, so
> > i'll
> > be dropping by a lot.
> > For starters, just one question:
> >
> > I didn't understand the differences between all the beet patches listed on
> > infrahip.hiit.fi/beet/
> > Can any one point me to any document explaining the differences?
> >
>
> Basically the BEET patch consist in two incremental patches.
> The first patch to be applied is the simple one and the second one is the
> interfamily.
> Therefore if you would like to patch Linux kernel 2.6.13.1 you first apply
> simple-beet-patch-v1.0-2.6.13.1
> and then
> interfamily-beet-patch-v1.0-2.6.13.1
>
> The main difference between these two patches is that the former supports the
> same families between inner and outer addresses (as a result the only allowed
> cases are inner=outer=IPv4 and inner=outer=IPv6), whereas the latter supports
> also the cross-family transformation.
> The reason why we created incremental patches is due to requirements from
> Linux
> community.
>
> Please notice that the latest beet draft is not fully support and only the
> simple patch is provided: the latest draft specifies how to handle the IPv4
> options: an additional header (so called pseudo-header -PH-) is added.
>
> As a result I would recommend to use the patches named:
> simple-beet-patch-v1.0-2.6.XX.YY
> interfamily-beet-patch-v1.0-2.6.XX.YY
>
> (where the XX.YY determine the version of the Linux kernel to be patched).
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Diego
>
>
>
>
>
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