Re: ethernet over ip

From: Pawel Malachowski (pawmal_at_unia.3lo.lublin.pl)
Date: 08/03/04

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    Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:17:31 +0200
To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org

    On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:36:11AM -0400, Dave Dolson wrote:

    > > How can a body do ethernet over ip on FreeBSD? I have heard that
    > > with netgraph you can do that. Has anybody tried this or maybe some
    > > other way? The goal is to connect two L2 networks on remote sites.
    >
    > I have tried it.
    > You can connect a lower hook of ng_ether to a ng_ksocket to bridge ethernet
    > packets over UDP.
    > (Set this up at both ends.)
    >
    > I don't remember the specifics; see man ng_ether and ng_ksocket.

    One can also try with userland tunnel daemon (like vtund), associate
    tunnel with tap(4) interfaces and turn on bridging on tap and LAN-side
    interfaces. 

    -- 
Paweł Małachowski
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