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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:39:44 +1100
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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.