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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:39:44 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol
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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: David@mail.vyatta.com, "Miller <davem"@davemloft.net, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, bridge@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dane@aiinet.com

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.