Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] ip_gre: sendto/recvfrom NBMA address

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:33:28 +0200

Timo Teräs wrote:
> When GRE tunnel is in NBMA mode, this patch allows an application to use
> a PF_PACKET socket to:
> - send a packet to specific NBMA address with sendto()
> - use recvfrom() to receive packet and check which NBMA address it came 
> from
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timo Teras <[email-masked]>
> 
> ---
> 
> This is useful for implementing NHRP (and other low level protocols) over
> NBMA GRE tunnels.
> 
> Posted about a week ago, but got no reply. Could someone comment on this?
> Or commit it? Thanks.

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