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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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23 # IEC 62439-3 High-availability Seamless Redundancy
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56 config HSR
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- tristate "High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR)"
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- ---help---
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- If you say Y here, then your Linux box will be able to act as a
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- DANH ("Doubly attached node implementing HSR"). For this to work,
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- your Linux box needs (at least) two physical Ethernet interfaces,
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- and it must be connected as a node in a ring network together with
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- other HSR capable nodes.
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+ tristate "High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR & PRP)"
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+ help
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+ This enables IEC 62439 defined High-availability Seamless
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+ Redundancy (HSR) and Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP).
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- All Ethernet frames sent over the hsr device will be sent in both
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- directions on the ring (over both slave ports), giving a redundant,
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- instant fail-over network. Each HSR node in the ring acts like a
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- bridge for HSR frames, but filters frames that have been forwarded
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- earlier.
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+ If you say Y here, then your Linux box will be able to act as a
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+ DANH ("Doubly attached node implementing HSR") or DANP ("Doubly
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+ attached node implementing PRP"). For this to work, your Linux box
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+ needs (at least) two physical Ethernet interfaces.
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+
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+ For DANH, it must be connected as a node in a ring network together
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+ with other HSR capable nodes. All Ethernet frames sent over the HSR
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+ device will be sent in both directions on the ring (over both slave
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+ ports), giving a redundant, instant fail-over network. Each HSR node
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+ in the ring acts like a bridge for HSR frames, but filters frames
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+ that have been forwarded earlier.
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+
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+ For DANP, it must be connected as a node connecting to two
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+ separate networks over the two slave interfaces. Like HSR, Ethernet
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+ frames sent over the PRP device will be sent to both networks giving
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+ a redundant, instant fail-over network. Unlike HSR, PRP networks
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+ can have Singly Attached Nodes (SAN) such as PC, printer, bridges
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+ etc and will be able to communicate with DANP nodes.
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2031 This code is a "best effort" to comply with the HSR standard as
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- but no compliancy tests have been made. Use iproute2 to select
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- the version you desire.
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+ and PRP standard described in IEC 62439-4:2012 (PRP), but no
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+ compliancy tests have been made. Use iproute2 to select the protocol
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+ you would like to use.
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2537 You need to perform any and all necessary tests yourself before
2638 relying on this code in a safety critical system!