[PATCH 1/4] net: if_arp: add ARPHRD_PUREIP type

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 02:13:10PM +0800, Rocco Yue wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-06-24 at 07:29 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the explaination, why is this hardware somehow "special" in
> > this way that this has never been needed before?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> 
> Before kernel-4.18, RAWIP was the same as PUREIP, neither of them
> automatically generates an IPv6 link-local address, and the way to
> generate an IPv6 global address is the same.
> 
> After kernel-4.18 (include 4.18 version), the behavior of RAWIP had
> changed due to the following patch:
> @@  static int ipv6_generate_eui64(u8 *eui, struct net_device *dev)
> +	case ARPHRD_RAWIP:
> +		return addrconf_ifid_rawip(eui, dev);
>  	}
>  	return -1;
> }
> 
> the reason why the kernel doesn't need to generate the link-local
> address automatically is as follows:
> 
> In the 3GPP 29.061, here is some description as follows:
> "in order to avoid any conflict between the link-local address of
> MS and that of the GGSN, the Interface-Identifier used by the MS to
> build its link-local address shall be assigned by the GGSN. The GGSN
> ensures the uniqueness of this Interface-Identifier. Then MT shall
> then enforce the use of this Interface-Identifier by the TE"
> 
> In other words, in the cellular network, GGSN determines whether to
> reply to the Router Solicitation message of UE by identifying the
> low 64bits of UE interface's ipv6 link-local address.
> 
> When using a new kernel and RAWIP, kernel will generate an EUI64
> format ipv6 link-local address, and if the device uses this address
> to send RS, GGSN will not reply RA message.
> 
> Therefore, in that background, we came up with PUREIP to make kernel
> doesn't generate a ipv6 link-local address in any address generate
> mode.

Thanks for the better description.  That should go into the changelog
text somewhere so that others know what is going on here with this new
option.

And are these user-visable flags documented in a man page or something
else somewhere?  If not, how does userspace know about them?

thanks,

greg k-h