From: Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@zlug.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/03][RESUBMIT] net: EtherIP tunnel driver
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:27:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060923122754.GE32284@zlug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060923121327.GH30245@lug-owl.de>
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:13:27PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> I haven't seen the first submission, but is this driver really needed?
> Can't this be done with creating two tap interfaces on both endpoints
> and bridge them with a local ethernet device using userland software?
In general it is possible to use a tap interface to tunnel Ethernet
packets. But this driver uses the EtherIP protocol defined in RFC 3378
which itself defines an own IP protocol for it (number 97). This
protocol is also supported by different other operating systems (some of
the major BSD versions). This driver makes Linux interoperable with
these implementations.
Regards,
Joerg Roedel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-23 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-23 12:07 [PATCH 00/03][RESUBMIT] net: EtherIP tunnel driver Joerg Roedel
2006-09-23 12:13 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-09-23 12:27 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2006-09-23 12:38 ` jamal
2006-09-23 13:27 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 1:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-25 8:32 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 20:49 ` Brian Haley
2006-09-23 23:35 ` David Miller
2006-09-25 8:18 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-25 11:57 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 12:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-25 12:35 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-23 12:13 ` [PATCH 01/03] net: EtherIP driver, header and MAINTAINERS changes Joerg Roedel
2006-09-23 12:16 ` [PATCH 02/03] net/bridge: add support for EtherIP devices Joerg Roedel
2006-09-24 4:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-25 8:24 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 14:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-25 14:54 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-23 12:20 ` [PATCH 03/03][IPROUTE2] EtherIP tunnel and device support for iproute2 Joerg Roedel
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