From 37bde79979c3862c79294c62ddcef7efc477e4bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Shearman Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:14:38 +0100 Subject: mpls: Per-device enabling of packet input An MPLS network is a single trust domain where the edges must be in control of what labels make their way into the core. The simplest way of ensuring this is for the edge device to always impose the labels, and not allow forward labeled traffic from untrusted neighbours. This is achieved by allowing a per-device configuration of whether MPLS traffic input from that interface should be processed or not. To be secure by default, the default state is changed to MPLS being disabled on all interfaces unless explicitly enabled and no global option is provided to change the default. Whilst this differs from other protocols (e.g. IPv6), network operators are used to explicitly enabling MPLS forwarding on interfaces, and with the number of links to the MPLS core typically fairly low this doesn't present too much of a burden on operators. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt index 639ddf0..9ed15f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt @@ -18,3 +18,12 @@ platform_labels - INTEGER Possible values: 0 - 1048575 Default: 0 + +conf//input - BOOL + Control whether packets can be input on this interface. + + If disabled, packets will be discarded without further + processing. + + 0 - disabled (default) + not 0 - enabled -- cgit v1.1