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

To: jchapman@xxxxxxxxxxx (James Chapman)
Subject: Re: PPP-over-L2TP kernel support, new patch for review
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:05:35 +1000
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James Chapman <jchapman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> We keep coming back to the scalability issue. Sure this driver
> wouldn't work when handling thousands of sessions, but I just don't
> think it's an issue in the VPN case. People will be nailing up their

That's where I disagree.  We don't want to end up with two L2TP
implementations in the kernel, one geared towards large installations
and one geared towards IPsec setups.

So I think both Ben and James need to work out how they can best
absorb the advantages of each other's stack.

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