High-availability Seamless Redundancy ("HSR") provides instant failover
redundancy for Ethernet networks. It requires a special network topology where
all nodes are connected in a ring (each node having two physical network
interfaces). It is suited for applications that demand high availability and
very short reaction time.
HSR acts on the Ethernet layer, using a registered Ethernet protocol type to
send special HSR frames in both directions over the ring. The driver creates
virtual network interfaces that can be used just like any ordinary Linux
network interface, for IP/TCP/UDP traffic etc. All nodes in the network ring
must be HSR capable.
This code is a "best effort" to comply with the HSR standard as described in
IEC 62439-3:2010 (HSRv0).
Signed-off-by: Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@xdin.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Initial implementation of the Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol
(MVRP) from IEEE 802.1Q-2011, based on the existing implementation
of the GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP).
Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add Ethertype 0x4305 (not an officially registered id).
This Ethertype is used by every frame generated by B.A.T.M.A.N.-Advanced. Its
definition is currently batman-adv local only and since it is not officially
registered it is better to make its definition kernel-wide so that we avoid
collisions given by future unofficial uses of the same Ethertype.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
