From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Timo Teräs" <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] bridging with gre tunnel
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:07:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711120717.0c59e569@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4876FDF0.1030807@iki.fi>
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:30:08 +0300
Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It looks the current kernel still do not support bridging over gre
> tunnels.
>
> I did find an old patch for ip_gre that would enable this [1]. But
> it needs porting from 2.4 to 2.6 kernels and looks like it needs
> cleaning up too.
>
> Is there newer/better patches to achieve this? Any thoughts about
> doing bridging with gre tunnels?
>
> Cheers,
> Timo
>
> [1] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2003q4/010327.html
The idea is fine, but that patch needs work (kind of a mess).
If you want it, then go through normal process of submitting to
netdev and take the comments and fix it up.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Timo Teräs" <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] bridging with gre tunnel
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:07:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711120717.0c59e569@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4876FDF0.1030807@iki.fi>
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:30:08 +0300
Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It looks the current kernel still do not support bridging over gre
> tunnels.
>
> I did find an old patch for ip_gre that would enable this [1]. But
> it needs porting from 2.4 to 2.6 kernels and looks like it needs
> cleaning up too.
>
> Is there newer/better patches to achieve this? Any thoughts about
> doing bridging with gre tunnels?
>
> Cheers,
> Timo
>
> [1] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2003q4/010327.html
The idea is fine, but that patch needs work (kind of a mess).
If you want it, then go through normal process of submitting to
netdev and take the comments and fix it up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-11 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-11 6:30 [Bridge] bridging with gre tunnel Timo Teräs
2008-07-11 6:30 ` Timo Teräs
2008-07-11 19:07 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-07-11 19:07 ` [Bridge] " Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-14 0:41 ` Philip Craig
2008-07-14 0:41 ` Philip Craig
2008-07-14 7:25 ` [Bridge] " Timo Teräs
2008-07-14 7:25 ` Timo Teräs
2008-07-14 8:44 ` [Bridge] " Philip Craig
2008-07-14 8:44 ` Philip Craig
2008-07-14 9:13 ` [Bridge] " James Chapman
2008-07-14 9:13 ` James Chapman
2008-07-14 9:44 ` [Bridge] " Timo Teräs
2008-07-14 9:44 ` Timo Teräs
2008-07-14 11:45 ` [Bridge] " Herbert Xu
2008-07-14 11:45 ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-14 12:15 ` [Bridge] " Patrick McHardy
2008-07-14 12:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-07-14 12:20 ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-14 12:20 ` Herbert Xu
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