From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Oeser Subject: Re: L2TP support? Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:33:33 +0100 Message-ID: <200703221833.33530.netdev@axxeo.de> References: <4602AA25.6020001@katalix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: James Chapman Return-path: Received: from secondary.axxeo.de ([194.45.45.5]:50393 "EHLO mail.axxeo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934160AbXCVRqM (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:46:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4602AA25.6020001@katalix.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi James, James Chapman schrieb: > Is there interest in adding L2TP support? Yes, if there is also a user space part somewhere. > I have a patch which could be submitted for review. The PPPoL2TP driver > presents a PPPoX socket to userspace pppd in the same way as the PPPoE > and PPPoATM drivers. The kernel handles all data traffic, while > userspace daemons do L2TP and PPP control message processing. Like the pppoe-plugin for pppd? > In that thread, I was asked to improve the scalability of my solution by > avoiding the socket-per-session usage imposed by the PPPoX model. Since that is imposed by your generic upper layer (PPPoX) this is no valid argument against your code. (Yes, I've read that thread :-)) > Shall I post the patch? Yes, please check your patch using the nice checklist in Documentation/SubmitChecklist and do it in suitable chunks according to Documentation/SubmittingPatches I'm looking forward to review it! Best Regards Ingo Oeser