Subject: Re: [RFC] ppp: Bridge Control Protocol

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:42:08 -0800

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:39:44 +1100
Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 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.

Old starting point

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2005-May/004523.html