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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 ...



  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-18 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ 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

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