From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 16 11:31:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02205 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:31:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01971 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:30:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA00734; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma000721; Mon Feb 16 11:25:29 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA01915; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:25:29 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199802161925.LAA01915@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: IP tunnels In-Reply-To: from "Matthew N. Dodd" at "Feb 15, 98 11:11:10 pm" To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:25:29 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew N. Dodd writes: > I'm playing around with code to implement IP-ENCAP(4), IPIP(94), and > ENCAP(98) in the kernel. Would it not be useful to define a driver > framework that would allow easy extension to add GRE support and PPTP? > > I've been tossing a few ideas around but have not come up with something > concrete. Hmm... what did you have in mind? These protocols are all pretty simple, so there's not a lot of work to do no matter how you slice it. Also, I think proto #4 is already being used for MBONE tunnels, so that code already exists (in some form). -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message