From: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
To: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
Cc: "Timo Teräs" <timo.teras@iki.fi>,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bridging with gre tunnel
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:13:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487B18CD.5020502@katalix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487B11D9.7090800@snapgear.com>
Philip Craig wrote:
> Timo Teräs wrote:
> I posted a cleaner version that's similar to what the old patch
> did, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=115449948503549&w=2
>
> But I don't think that is the right approach:
> - it forces you to use bridging if you only want ethernet over GRE
> - the change fundamentally has nothing to do with bridging
I agree.
> It could be a new device that sits on top of GRE and simply does
> ethernet encapsulation then passes it to the raw GRE device.
This would be my preferred approach. There are other drivers that use a
netdev to do some encap/decap processing on packets which are then
passed on to another driver, e.g. macvlan, and it works well.
--
James Chapman
Katalix Systems Ltd
http://www.katalix.com
Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-11 6:30 bridging with gre tunnel Timo Teräs
2008-07-11 19:07 ` [Bridge] " Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-14 0:41 ` Philip Craig
2008-07-14 7:25 ` Timo Teräs
2008-07-14 8:44 ` Philip Craig
2008-07-14 9:13 ` James Chapman [this message]
2008-07-14 9:44 ` Timo Teräs
2008-07-14 11:45 ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-14 12:15 ` [Bridge] " Patrick McHardy
2008-07-14 12:20 ` Herbert Xu
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