public inbox for netdev@vger.kernel.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Mark Smith <lk-netdev@lk-netdev•nosense.org>
To: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@padovan•org>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, marco bonola <marco.bonola@gmail•com>,
	"ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)" <zioproto@gmail•com>,
	Behling Mario <mb@mariobehling•de>,
	"L. Aaron Kaplan" <aaron@lo-res•org>
Subject: Re: IP/UDP encapsulation
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:18:31 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100408191831.08cd8d7b@opy.nosense.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100408074247.GA19798@vigoh>

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 04:42:47 -0300
"Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@padovan•org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for some advice on that work. The Freifunk organization is
> planning work on the IP/UDP encapsulation kernel module as a GSoC
> project. The idea is to create a IP-in-UDP tunnel like we do for
> IP-in-IP or IP-in-GRE tunnels. The only way to do that today is to use
> some VPN software.
> 
> The module will export its virtual interface through sockets and will
> have support for the standard syscalls like the others encapsulation
> modules.
> 
> It will improve the performance of mesh networks that will we be able
> to use IP-in-UDP rather than IP-in-IP.

I'm a bit confused. How can tunnelling IP in UDP in IP be faster than IP in IP?


> So, instead of push all data to
> local gateway into the mesh all the data can be tunneled to a faster
> server and from there to the Internet. With all the data exiting with
> the same IP address (the fast server IP). That will improve bandwidth,
> especially for upload.
> 
> Is such module acceptable for merge into the Linux Kernel?
> 
> Any comments or suggestions to the module architecture and
> implementation? If you want more information about the module I can
> provide that.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Gustavo F. Padovan
> http://padovan.org
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger•kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08  7:42 IP/UDP encapsulation Gustavo F. Padovan
2010-04-08  7:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08  9:48 ` Mark Smith [this message]
2010-04-08 10:29   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08 10:39     ` ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100408191831.08cd8d7b@opy.nosense.org \
    --to=lk-netdev@lk-netdev$(echo .)nosense.org \
    --cc=aaron@lo-res$(echo .)org \
    --cc=gustavo@padovan$(echo .)org \
    --cc=marco.bonola@gmail$(echo .)com \
    --cc=mb@mariobehling$(echo .)de \
    --cc=netdev@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=zioproto@gmail$(echo .)com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox