Herbert Xu wrote: > Philip Craig <philipc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Actually, this change doesn't really belong in GRE either, because >> that forces you to choose between ethernet encapsulation and not. >> It could be a new device that sits on top of GRE and simply does >> ethernet encapsulation then passes it to the raw GRE device. >> That's a lot of infrastructure for something so simple though, >> and I don't think people will want to use both devices at once. > > What's the problem with using Ethernet encapsulation on such a > GRE device? If you're referring to the fact that user-space uses > the encapsulation type to determine whether a device is a tunnel, > then we should fix those tools instead. > > Rather than trying to resuscitate the ioctl interface, please > create a new extensible netlink interface and make ip(8) use it > where available. Or use rtnl_link, which was created for this purpose :) _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
