Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [patch v4, kernel version 3.2.1] net/ipv4/ip_gre: Ethernet multipoint GRE over IP | | From | Eric Dumazet <> | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:53:30 +0100 |
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Le mercredi 18 janvier 2012 à 00:33 +0100, Stefan Gula a écrit : > From: Stefan Gula <steweg@gmail.com> > > This patch is an extension for current Ethernet over GRE > implementation, which allows user to create virtual bridge (multipoint > VPN) and forward traffic based on Ethernet MAC address information in > it. It simulates the Bridge behavior learning mechanism, but instead > of learning port ID from which given MAC address comes, it learns IP > address of peer which encapsulated given packet. Multicast, Broadcast > and unknown-multicast traffic is send over network as multicast > encapsulated GRE packet, so one Ethernet multipoint GRE tunnel can be > represented as one single virtual switch on logical level and be also > represented as one multicast IPv4 address on network level. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Gula <steweg@gmail.com> > > --- >
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
I guess remaining performance point is to get a refcount less ip_route_output_gre(), aka ip_route_output_gre_noref() :)
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