[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] security: allow application to specify UDP ports to PMD

Akhil Goyal akhil.goyal at nxp.com
Thu Sep 10 21:09:26 CEST 2020


Hi Tejasree,

> Add UDP source and destination ports in ipsec_xform to allow application
> to specify ports to be used for IPsec UDP encapsulation as they are
> dynamically changed by NAT in between. Also adding an extra flag to
> indicate whether PMD needs to perform encapsulation header verification
> in case of inbound. In case of inline IPsec implementation, verification
> of outer IP headers and UDP encapsulation headers need to be handled
> in the PMD. For lookaside IPsec, application can optionally offload
> this to the PMD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree at marvell.com>
> ---

I think we should add some usage of these newly added params 
- either in app/test or in examples/ipsec-secgw

Regards,
Akhil


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