From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:42:08 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20100301204208.36f81443@s6510> In-Reply-To: <20100302033944.GL26848@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20100301145915.2ecaac89@nehalam> <20100302033944.GL26848@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Mackerras Cc: David@mail.vyatta.com, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, bridge@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dane@aiinet.com, "Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:59:15PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > This is a port of an old patch to provide BCP support. > > BCP allows bridging PPP tunnels, it useful to do bridging between > > virtualized environments. Original patch was done by > > Dan Eble but was for 2.4.21. > > > > Note: still needs testing. Does anyone have hardware to make > > sure this interoperates with other implementations? > > Is there a corresponding pppd patch to handle the control protocol? > > Paul. Old starting point https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2005-May/004523.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:42:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol Message-Id: <20100301204208.36f81443@s6510> List-Id: References: <20100301145915.2ecaac89@nehalam> <20100302033944.GL26848@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20100302033944.GL26848@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Mackerras Cc: David@mail.vyatta.com, "Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:59:15PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > This is a port of an old patch to provide BCP support. > > BCP allows bridging PPP tunnels, it useful to do bridging between > > virtualized environments. Original patch was done by > > Dan Eble but was for 2.4.21. > > > > Note: still needs testing. Does anyone have hardware to make > > sure this interoperates with other implementations? > > Is there a corresponding pppd patch to handle the control protocol? > > Paul. Old starting point https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2005-May/004523.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:42:08 -0800 Message-ID: <20100301204208.36f81443@s6510> References: <20100301145915.2ecaac89@nehalam> <20100302033944.GL26848@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David@mail.vyatta.com, "Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100302033944.GL26848@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ppp-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:39:44 +1100 Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:59:15PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > This is a port of an old patch to provide BCP support. > > BCP allows bridging PPP tunnels, it useful to do bridging between > > virtualized environments. Original patch was done by > > Dan Eble but was for 2.4.21. > > > > Note: still needs testing. Does anyone have hardware to make > > sure this interoperates with other implementations? > > Is there a corresponding pppd patch to handle the control protocol? > > Paul. Old starting point https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2005-May/004523.html