Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:13:27 +0200
From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@zlug.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>, davem@davemloft.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
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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