From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/4] gre: Ethernet over GRE
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:12:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EDF53C.9020700@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081009070424.GA16684@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu wrote:
> This series of patches add Ethernet over GRE support. The user
> space interface is done with the rtnl_link mechanism. I'll post
> the patches for iproute too.
>
> There has been a small demand of such a tunneling mechanism that
> allows direct Ethernet connections over IP. In the past many
> efforts have been made in this direction. However, inadequacies
> with our user interface have foiled many of them.
>
> Recently Patrick McHardy created the rtnl_link mechanism which
> finally allows tunnel configuration to be brought into the 21st
> century. Having tried it I must say that it has been an absolute
> pleasure to use :)
Glad you like it :)
> This should be completely backwards compatible in that if you
> don't create Ethernet over GRE tunnels then your GRE experience
> should not differ one single bit from before. However, you can
> manage your existing GRE interfaces using the new interface should
> you choose to do so.
These patches look good to me, thanks for doing this work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 7:04 [0/4] gre: Ethernet over GRE Herbert Xu
2008-10-09 7:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] gre: Use needed_headroom Herbert Xu
2008-10-09 7:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] gre: Move MTU setting out of ipgre_tunnel_bind_dev Herbert Xu
2008-10-09 7:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] gre: Add netlink interface Herbert Xu
2008-10-09 7:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] gre: Add Transparent Ethernet Bridging Herbert Xu
2008-10-09 8:43 ` Philip Craig
2008-10-09 10:39 ` Herbert Xu
2008-11-24 6:49 ` bridge: Fix update_pmtu crash with GRE Herbert Xu
2008-11-24 12:35 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-09 11:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] gre: Add Transparent Ethernet Bridging Herbert Xu
2008-10-09 7:08 ` ip: gre: Add GRE configuration support through rtnl_link Herbert Xu
2008-10-11 13:03 ` Herbert Xu
2008-10-09 11:23 ` [PATCH 5/4] inet: Make tunnel RX/TX byte counters more consistent Herbert Xu
2008-10-09 19:03 ` David Miller
2008-10-09 12:12 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-10-09 19:01 ` [0/4] gre: Ethernet over GRE David Miller
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