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kernel support for l2tp

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Subject: kernel support for l2tp
From: "Arthur Scherbius" <arthur_scherbius@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:52:35 +0000
Cc: davem@xxxxxxxxxx, ak@xxxxxx, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx
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I have a 2.4.x kernel with l2tp support interworking with a cisco box. Would there be any interest in putting it into the kernel distribution ?

The kernel driver takes ip_gre.c and ppp_async.c as the starting point for the code. Thus the driver writes to the ppp_channel.h interface. It then suppports the pppoe model of operation for terminating l2tp sessions with ppp i.e. in response to pppd ioctls it indicates l2tp session packets at ppp_input().

The l2tp daemon is a modified version of the Bill Baumann sourceforge project. The daemon forks the 2.4 pppd with a new plugin (pppol2tp) to orchestrate the terminaton of ppp sessions.

Tunnels can be added/deleted using a modified version of iproute2
ip tunnel add/del.

Let me know if you want to pursue this further.

Arthur

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