netdev - Re: bridging with gre tunnel

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Message-ID: <487AA0CD.9090600@snapgear.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:41:49 +1000
From:	Philip Craig <philipc@...pgear.com>
To:	Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
CC:	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bridging with gre tunnel

Timo Teräs wrote:
> Is there newer/better patches to achieve this? Any thoughts about
> doing bridging with gre tunnels?

Here's a patch I did against 2.6.17.

I didn't submit this to mainline though because the userspace ABI
is ugly.  The basic problem is that the struct used for the ioctl
isn't extensible.  The only way I can think of to fix it properly
is to add configuration of gre using netlink, but I never got around
to doing that.  

View attachment "gre-bridge-6.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (11231 bytes)

View attachment "gre-bridge-iproute2.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (2806 bytes)