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man: netdev - add some minimal explanation to the different netdev kinds and modes
Would be awesome to expand on this a lot, as there is currently no decent documentation for most of these things.
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<title>Supported netdev kinds</title>
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<para>The following kinds of virtual network devices may be configured in <filename>.netdev</filename> files:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>bond</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A bond device is an aggregation of all its slave devices. See
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<ulink url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt">
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Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver HOWTO</ulink> for details.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>bridge</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A bridge devcie is a software switch, each of its slave devices and the bridge itself are ports of the switch.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>dummy</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A dummy device drops all packets sent to it.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>gre</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A Level 3 GRE tunnel over IPv4. See
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<ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2784">
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RFC 2784</ulink> for details.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>gretap</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv4.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>ip6gre</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A Level 3 GRE tunnel over IPv6.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>ip6tnl</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>An IPv4 or IPv6 tunnel over IPv6</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>ip6gretap</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>An Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv6.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>ipip</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>An IPv4 over IPv4 tunnel.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>ipvlan</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>An ipvlan device is a stacked device which receives packets from its
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underlying device based on IP address filtering.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>macvlan</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A macvlan device is a stacked device which receives packets from its
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underlying device based on MAC address filtering.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>sit</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>An IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>tap</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A persistent Level 2 tunnel between a network device and a device node.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>tun</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A persistent Level 3 tunnel between a network device and a device node.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>veth</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>An ethernet tunnel between a pair of network devices.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>vlan</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A vlan is a stacked device which receives packets from its underlying
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device based on VLAN tagging. See
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<ulink url="http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1Q.html">
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IEEE 802.1Q</ulink> for details.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>vti</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>An IPv4 over IPSec tunnel.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>vxlan</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para></para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>[Match] Section Options</title>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>Kind=</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The netdev kind. Currently, <literal>bridge</literal>,
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<literal>bond</literal>, <literal>vlan</literal>,
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<literal>macvlan</literal>,
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<literal>ipvlan</literal>, <literal>vxlan</literal>,
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<literal>ipip</literal>, <literal>gre</literal>,
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<literal>gretap</literal>, <literal>sit</literal>,
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<literal>vti</literal>, <literal>veth</literal>,
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<literal>tun</literal>, <literal>tap</literal> and
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<literal>dummy</literal>
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are supported. This option is compulsory.</para>
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<para>The netdev kind. This option is compulsory. See the <literal>Supported netdev kinds</literal> section
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for the valid keys.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>Mode=</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>IPv6 tunnels can have three mode
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<literal>ip6ip6</literal>
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<literal>ipip6</literal>,
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<literal>any</literal>
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<para>An <literal>ip6tnl</literal> tunnels can have three modes
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<literal>ip6ip6</literal> for IPv6 over IPv6,
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<literal>ipip6</literal> for IPv4 over IPv6 or
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<literal>any</literal> for either.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>Mode=</varname></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The mode specifies the ip6 tunnel protocol. Supported type are </para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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