From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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
Subject: Re: [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:39:44 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100302033944.GL26848@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100301145915.2ecaac89@nehalam>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 22:59 [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-02 3:39 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2010-03-02 4:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-02 4:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-03 8:45 ` Denys Fedorysychenko
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