If DHCP4 client lost a lease, and then soon acquire new lease, then
the removal of the old address may not be completed. If that happens,
and the new and old addresses are the same, then the new address will be
considered as a foreign address. Such a situation can occur when the
DHCP4 server is restarted.
This makes networkd wait for the removal of the old address when a new
lease is acquired.
This also makes the link in configuring state when renewing address.
When DHCP6 and RA are enabled, and RA does not provide any addresses,
then link may become configured state even if no address is assigned,
due to the time-lag between RA completion and DHCP reply.
This makes if DHCP is explicitly enabled, then link must have at least
one valid address to be in the configured state.
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.
While investigating https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/16356, I
discovered that networkd stops the radv service before adding or updating
prefixes and then starts it again. This causes networkd to send an RA with
a router lifetime of zero, causing the routes to flap on systems receiving
the RA for a fraction of a second before radv is started again and proper
RAs are sent. That has the potential to cause issues with latency-sensitive
traffic like gaming or VoIP. This patch adds a boolean argument to the
sd_radv_stop() function to control this behavior. The zero lifetime RA is
still sent whenever radv is actually being stopped, but when it is being
restarted for a prefix update (from networkd-dhcp6.c), the final RA is no
longer sent to avoid the route flapping.
This is mostly cosmetic, but let's reorder the destructors so that
we do the final sd_notify() call before we run the destructor for
the manager object.
SR-IOV provides the ability to partition a single physical PCI
resource into virtual PCI functions which can then be injected in
to a VM. In the case of network VFs, SR-IOV improves north-south n
etwork performance (that is, traffic with endpoints outside the
host machine) by allowing traffic to bypass the host machine’s network stack.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-knodel-terminology-02https://lwn.net/Articles/823224/
This gets rid of most but not occasions of these loaded terms:
1. scsi_id and friends are something that is supposed to be removed from
our tree (see #7594)
2. The test suite defines an API used by the ubuntu CI. We can remove
this too later, but this needs to be done in sync with the ubuntu CI.
3. In some cases the terms are part of APIs we call or where we expose
concepts the kernel names the way it names them. (In particular all
remaining uses of the word "slave" in our codebase are like this,
it's used by the POSIX PTY layer, by the network subsystem, the mount
API and the block device subsystem). Getting rid of the term in these
contexts would mean doing some major fixes of the kernel ABI first.
Regarding the replacements: when whitelist/blacklist is used as noun we
replace with with allow list/deny list, and when used as verb with
allow-list/deny-list.
