From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [0/4] gre: Ethernet over GRE Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:12:44 +0200 Message-ID: <48EDF53C.9020700@trash.net> References: <20081009070424.GA16684@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:49224 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753170AbYJIMMr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:12:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081009070424.GA16684@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.