netdev - Re: [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol

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Date:	Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:39:44 +1100
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David@...l.vyatta.com, "Miller <davem"@davemloft.net,
	linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dane@...net.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:59:15PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> This is a port of an old patch to provide BCP support.
> BCP allows bridging PPP tunnels, it useful to do bridging between
> virtualized environments. Original patch was done by
> Dan Eble but was for 2.4.21.
> 
> Note: still needs testing. Does anyone have hardware to make
> sure this interoperates with other implementations?

Is there a corresponding pppd patch to handle the control protocol?

Paul.
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