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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Ke Chen <iw01_cke@it.kth.se>
Cc: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>,
	Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: about gif interface!
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you can do this with no code using the eiface netgraph node
and the ksocket netgraph node.
(I don't think I have the eiface node in 4.x yet... I'll need to check.)

julian


On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Ke Chen wrote:

> hi,
>   thank all of you for such quick reply.
>   I am sorry for not addressing matters clearly.
>   In face, I want to do tests on Ethernet over IP. That means one end of
> tunnel could encapsulate the whole Ethernet frame into the IP packet. when
> the datagrams reach on the other side, the Ethernet frame could be freed
> out.
>   I read from the following article about a easy way to implement it with
> OpenBSD. So i think it is reasonable to use it with freeBSD.
> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/papers/tunneling/
> 
> Another way to implement Ethernet over IP is to use vtun, a specially
> desgined software.
> http://vtun.sourceforge.net
> I really appreciated someone could offer some experience on it.
> 
> thank you again.
> 
> best regards,
> kurt
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>
> To: "Lars Eggert" <larse@ISI.EDU>
> Cc: "Ke Chen" <iw01_cke@it.kth.se>; <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:27 PM
> Subject: Re: about gif interface!
> 
> 
> >
> > .se?
> >
> > anyhow you may be able to do what you want to do bu you need to
> > tell us a bit more..
> >
> > what is at the other end of the gif tunnel?
> > are you trying o bridge two networks or just add a single
> > machine to your network?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Lars Eggert wrote:
> >
> > > Ke Chen wrote:
> > >  > hi,
> > >  >
> > >  > I have some problems about gif  interface.
> > >  >
> > >  > Could gif interface be bridged together with Ethernet interface?
> > >
> > > Sorry, I can't help you with Ethernet bridging (never set one up), but I
> > > can tell you that you will not need a gif interface for it (that's for
> > > IP tunnels).
> > >
> > > Lars
> > > --
> > > Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>               Information Sciences Institute
> > > http://www.isi.edu/larse/              University of Southern California
> > >
> >
> 
> 


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