On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:08:22PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > Why not use existing bridge code? > > > > It does use the existing bridge code. Perhaps the name is misleading. > > All it does is encapsulate the full ethernet header in a gre packet, > > rather than only layer 3. That is, currently gre uses ARPHRD_IPGRE, > > but bridging requires ARPHRD_ETHER. > > I am not against making the bridge code smarter to handle other > encapsulation.
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