From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Thibault Subject: Re: Ethernet over GRE and vlans Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:01:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4D627E3F.8060906@navigue.com> References: <4D2F77A8.1010700@navigue.com> <4D43A296.4040906@navigue.com> <20110221053854.GA26462@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from mail.navigue.com ([74.117.40.3]:52481 "EHLO mail.navigue.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754270Ab1BUPBU (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:01:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110221053854.GA26462@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 21/02/11 12:38 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:16:06AM -0500, Jonathan Thibault wrote: >> Is it wrong on my part to expect such behaviour from gretap devices >> or is this simply not possible/implemented yet? > I don't see why this shouldn't work, so it might be a bug or > misconfiguration. How did you setup gre1.1 and gre2.2? > > Cheers, I simply ran: vconfig add rcg0 1 ifconfig rcg0.1 up (the gretap interface is called rcg0, obviously) Now that I think of it I did not try to add the vlan using the 'ip link add' command though I'm not entirely sure it would make much of a difference. We sort of bypassed the problem using more hardware so the test rig is dismantled now but if you feel there really is something to it, I can set it back up. Thanks again, Jonathan P.S.: Gretap flies... The little atom 1.6 boards I tested this on gave me 877Mbit/sec without breaking a sweat.