netdev - Re: RFC EOIP Tunnel

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Date:	Tue, 21 May 2013 01:08:52 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Boian Bonev <bbonev@...cct.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC EOIP Tunnel

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 06:31:40PM +0300, Boian Bonev wrote:
> EOIP is a proprietary ethernet over IP tunneling protocol introduced
> by MikroTik's commercial product RouterOS. It uses GRE as protocol id
> but with non-standard header.

Actually, I does get used in BSD land. I have seen several setups some time
ago where gif interfaces got added to a bridge interface, which behaves like
EtherIP then. Prior to FreeBSD 8 they reversed the bytes of the version field
so they still have to provide knobs for backwards compatibility.

> Before going in technical details and submitting patches I want to
> know opinions if this work is suitable for merging upstream or is
> better to be kept as a side kernel patch project.

If the side kernel patch has matured and you are fine with it just propose it
to get merged.

> ps. https://github.com/bbonev/eoip contains 3.2.x patches + somehow
> working but quite crappy config tool

Configuration should be done by iproute.

Greetings,

  Hannes

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