Re: [PATCH][RFC] etherip: Ethernet-in-IPv4 tunneling

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 03:05:06PM -0500, jamal wrote:

> > Apparently they mis-read the RFC and write the etherip header as 0x0300
> > instead of 0x3000 (they have the version nibble in the wrong place.)  This
> > would likely prevent interoperability.
> 
> Thinking about it a bit - you should be able to break yours to do 0x0300
> to test with them ;->

Etherip is a really simple standard, the header is only 16 bits which
can only assume a single value (0x3000).  Looking at encapsulated packets
with tcpdump makes me 99.99% confident that it's all okay on that level.


--L