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
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next prev 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)
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