Remove node address from VPP tap0 #854
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This patch removes the nodeIP from the tap0 interface in VPP.
With this patch, for each uplink interface eth0 with IP 192.168.0.1/24
we create a corresponding tap0 set up the following way:
* In VRF:0
* we create the af_packet interface with IP 192.168.0.1/24
* we receive 192.168.0.1/32 locally, traffic to 192.168.0.1 without listeners
will end up in punt
* In the punt table
* we route 192.168.0.1/24 via tap0 192.168.0.1
* In linux
* tap0 has the 192.168.0.1/24 address
* tap0 will respond to ARPs as VPP has arp proxy enabled
* In a host-tap-eth0-v4 VRF
* we place the tap0 interface
* we give it the 169.254.0.1/32 address, overridable with CALICOVPP_TAP0_ADDR
* we enable IP6 without setting an address
* we add a static neighbor for 192.168.0.1 to the MAC of the linux side of the tap
* If we specify a rule in redirectToHostRules (e.g. for DNS in kind)
* we will have the classifier entry redirect to tap0 192.168.0.1
Signed-off-by: Nathan Skrzypczak <[email protected]>
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This patch removes the nodeIP from the tap0 interface in VPP.
With this patch, for each uplink interface eth0 with IP 192.168.0.1/24
we create a corresponding tap0 set up the following way:
will end up in punt
Signed-off-by: Nathan Skrzypczak [email protected]