Re: PPP-over-L2TP kernel support, new patch for review

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Chapman <jchapman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The biggest difference in our approaches is that Martijn and I use a
> PPPoL2TP socket per session bound through a plain AF_INET UDP tunnel
> socket while Ben uses a new AF_L2TP tunnel socket and no separate
> socket per session. Both have their merits.

Can you elaborate on the merits of having a socket? It would seem to me
that not having a socket is a lot more scalable.  After all IPsec doesn't
carry a socket around per session.

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