[CWN-Summit] Ethernet-over-DUP tunnel

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Tue Aug 17 04:40:53 CDT 2010


>>>>> "Mitar" == Mitar  <mitar at tnode.com> writes:

Mitar> Hi!  I have been talking with somebody that there already
Mitar> exists an Ethernet-over-UDP tunnel implementation for Linux,
Mitar> which does not make virtual (tun) interface for each tunnel,
Mitar> but it behaves as a tap device.

Mitar> I would be glad to learn more about it.

Is this it?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_2_Tunneling_Protocol

also, maybe:

  Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt

in the linux kernel tree.  I'm not sure about tun-vs-tap.


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