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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.

  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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