Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:13:27 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/03][RESUBMIT] net: EtherIP tunnel driver |
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On Sat, 2006-09-23 14:07:04 +0200, Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@zlug.org> wrote: > This patchset is the resubmit of the Ethernet over IPv4 tunnel driver > for Linux. I want to thank all reviewers for their annotations and > helpfull input. This version contains some major changes to the driver. > It uses an own device type now (ARPHRD_ETHERIP). This fixes the problem > that EtherIP devices could not be safely differenced from Ethernet > devices. This change also required some other changes. First a second > patch to the bridge code is included to allow the use of EtherIP devices > in a bridge. The third patch includes the necessary changes to iproute2 > (support of the new ARPHRD and general tunnel configuration support for > EtherIP).
I haven't seen the first submission, but is this driver really needed? Can't this be done with creating two tap interfaces on both endpoints and bridge them with a local ethernet device using userland software?
MfG, JBG
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