* IPv6 bridging
@ 2004-12-02 17:58 Zoltan NAGY
2004-12-03 0:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-12-03 9:07 ` Lennert Buytenhek
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Zoltan NAGY @ 2004-12-02 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Hello!
Is it possible to bridge ip tunnels (IPv6 in IPv4)? brctl gives me an
error "Invalid argument",
and from strace it seems it misses some ioctls from kernel...
any ideas?
I need it to be able to give my UMLs a public ipv6 address.
Regrads,
Zoltan NAGY,
Software Engineer
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: IPv6 bridging
2004-12-02 17:58 IPv6 bridging Zoltan NAGY
@ 2004-12-03 0:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-12-03 9:07 ` Lennert Buytenhek
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2004-12-03 0:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zoltan NAGY; +Cc: linux-kernel, bridge
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:58:47 +0100
Zoltan NAGY <nagyz@nefty.hu> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Is it possible to bridge ip tunnels (IPv6 in IPv4)? brctl gives me an
> error "Invalid argument",
> and from strace it seems it misses some ioctls from kernel...
That is because the bridge code works at the Ethernet level.
It is an 802 Ethernet bridge, not an IP tunnel.
> any ideas?
>
> I need it to be able to give my UMLs a public ipv6 address.
>
> Regrads,
>
> Zoltan NAGY,
> Software Engineer
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: IPv6 bridging
2004-12-02 17:58 IPv6 bridging Zoltan NAGY
2004-12-03 0:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
@ 2004-12-03 9:07 ` Lennert Buytenhek
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lennert Buytenhek @ 2004-12-03 9:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zoltan NAGY; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:58:47PM +0100, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
> Hello!
Hello!
> Is it possible to bridge ip tunnels (IPv6 in IPv4)? brctl gives me an
> error "Invalid argument",
> and from strace it seems it misses some ioctls from kernel...
Uhm. The only things you can bridge together are ethernet devices.
An IP tunnel is not an ethernet device, is it? This requirement is
there because the bridge just fowards ethernet frames, and knows
nothing about doing neighbour resolution (ARP) to get the right MAC
address, etc.
You might want to fiddle something with proxy ARP.
--L
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2004-12-03 9:08 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2004-12-02 17:58 IPv6 bridging Zoltan NAGY
2004-12-03 0:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-12-03 9:07 ` Lennert Buytenhek
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox