Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:27:54 +0200 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/03][RESUBMIT] net: EtherIP tunnel driver |
| |
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:13:27PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> 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?
In general it is possible to use a tap interface to tunnel Ethernet packets. But this driver uses the EtherIP protocol defined in RFC 3378 which itself defines an own IP protocol for it (number 97). This protocol is also supported by different other operating systems (some of the major BSD versions). This driver makes Linux interoperable with these implementations.
Regards, Joerg Roedel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |