When we require the lowest possible overhead option, we use the etherip kernel patches.
Dylan
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:41 +0200, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
Malcolm Scott wrote: > At 21:02 today, c.j wrote: > >>> You can setup a tunnel with OpenVPN. You'd get a tap device on >>> both sides which can be bridged with eth. >> Thanks. But maybe we don't want OpenVPN for VPN. Now I can't get why kernel >> do not support that. Have some disadvantages? > > I'm not sure if this is even possible using standard protocols. Bridging is > for Ethernet; PPP is not Ethernet. So this would require some sort of > nonstandard Ethernet-over-PPP encapsulation protocol, and would only make see standard rfc3518, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3518.txt, I think there is a (old?) patch flying around for this ... _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
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