From: Francesco Dolcini <fdolcini@sysnetsistemi.it>
To: Malcolm Scott <Malcolm.Scott@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: "c.j" <c.james.cj@gmail.com>, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] kernel doesn't support bridge with a ppp interface ?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:41:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48592CB7.7050103@sysnetsistemi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806181605330.20500@callisto.moose.malc.org.uk>
Malcolm Scott wrote:
> At 21:02 today, c.j wrote:
>
>>> You can setup a tunnel with OpenVPN. You'd get a tap device on
>>> both sides which can be bridged with eth.
>> Thanks. But maybe we don't want OpenVPN for VPN. Now I can't get why kernel
>> do not support that. Have some disadvantages?
>
> I'm not sure if this is even possible using standard protocols. Bridging is
> for Ethernet; PPP is not Ethernet. So this would require some sort of
> nonstandard Ethernet-over-PPP encapsulation protocol, and would only make
see standard rfc3518, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3518.txt, I think there
is a (old?) patch flying around for this ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-18 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 1:11 [Bridge] kernel doesn't support bridge with a ppp interface ? c.j
2008-06-18 5:33 ` Marek Kierdelewicz
2008-06-18 13:02 ` c.j
2008-06-18 15:09 ` Malcolm Scott
2008-06-18 15:41 ` Francesco Dolcini [this message]
2008-06-19 3:31 ` Dylan Hall
[not found] ` <56CC982A1CAD43C483A8F97167A6094C@vpn.com>
2008-06-19 22:28 ` Dylan Hall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-19 15:42 c.j
2008-06-19 16:28 ` James Chapman
2008-06-19 17:18 ` John Hasler
2008-06-20 15:32 ` c.j
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