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From: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear•com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat•com>
Cc: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi.denis-courmont@nokia•com>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [question] bridged tunnel
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:28:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6EB695.2070202@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090728081818.GA6522@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com>

Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Well generally there could be anything (e.g. internet) in between ROUTER A and
> B. That's why.

If the internet is in the middle, then you don't want to invent your own
tunneling.  Using something like OpenVPN in tap mode, or gretap over IPSec.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-28  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-28  7:59 [question] bridged tunnel Jiri Pirko
2009-07-28  8:11 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-07-28  8:18   ` Jiri Pirko
2009-07-28  8:28     ` Philip Craig [this message]
2009-07-28  8:43       ` Jiri Pirko
2009-07-28  8:12 ` Philip Craig
2009-07-28  8:20   ` Jiri Pirko

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