Philip Craig wrote: > Timo Teräs wrote: > I posted a cleaner version that's similar to what the old patch > did, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=115449948503549&w=2 > > But I don't think that is the right approach: > - it forces you to use bridging if you only want ethernet over GRE > - the change fundamentally has nothing to do with bridging I agree. > 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. This would be my preferred approach. There are other drivers that use a netdev to do some encap/decap processing on packets which are then passed on to another driver, e.g. macvlan, and it works well. -- James Chapman Katalix Systems Ltd http://www.katalix.com Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
