From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@zlug.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EtherIP tunnel driver (RFC 3378)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:52:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060918205252.GA6830@xi.wantstofly.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060911204129.GA28929@zlug.org>
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:41:29PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> This driver implements the tunneling of Ethernet packets over IPv4
> networks for Linux. It uses the protocol defined in RFC 3378.
Check out the thread "[PATCH][RFC] etherip: Ethernet-in-IPv4 tunneling"
that was on netdev in January of 2005 -- a number of arguments against
etherip (and for tunneling ethernet in GRE) were raised back then.
One of the most significant ones, IMHO:
> Another argument against etherip would be that OpenBSD apparently
> mis-implemented etherip by putting the etherip version nibble in the
> second nibble of the etherip header instead of the first, which would
> probably prevent the linux and OpenBSD versions from interoperating,
> negating the advantage of using etherip in the first place.
cheers,
Lennert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-18 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-11 20:41 [PATCH] EtherIP tunnel driver (RFC 3378) Joerg Roedel
2006-09-13 16:27 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-09-14 1:21 ` Philip Craig
2006-09-14 1:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-14 9:52 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-14 10:11 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-09-14 23:06 ` Philip Craig
2006-09-15 8:17 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-18 20:52 ` Lennert Buytenhek [this message]
2006-09-19 7:08 ` Joerg Roedel
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