[j-nsp] GRE & Bridging, is it possible with a Juniper box ?

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Patrik Olsson wrote:
> Have you tried looking for L2TP with PPP over BCP intestead PPP over IPCP?
>
> If you want to encapsulate the whole ethernetframe and send over a GRE
> tunnel so you get a bridged enviroment, is it called Ethernet over IP
> (EOIP). Dont remeber the rfc, but is not supported by Juniper. Only
> supported by a small Latvian vendor I think...

I wonder if you refer to rfc3378.  I recall support for it was 
recently added in Linux as well.

But I don't see why encapsulaitng whole ethernet frames in GRE could 
not work if vendors just chose to support it.  Then as 'ether type' in 
GRE header you could put 0x6558 or 0x8100 (IEEE 802.1q VLAN-tagged 
frames *). The former is also supported in Linux 
[http://lwn.net/Articles/303062/]

*) http://www.iana.org/assignments/ethernet-numbers

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