[Bridge] bridging with gre tunnel
James Chapman
jchapman at katalix.com
Mon Jul 14 02:13:49 PDT 2008
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.
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