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Date:      Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:36:11 -0400 
From:      Dave Dolson <ddolson@sandvine.com>
To:        "'Nickolay A. Kritsky'" <nkritsky@star-sw.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: ethernet over ip
Message-ID:  <A8535F8D62F3644997E91F4F66E341FC05DFC4@exchange.sandvine.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nickolay A. Kritsky [mailto:nkritsky@star-sw.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 5:32 AM
> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
> Subject: ethernet over ip
> 
> 
> Hello freebsd-net,
> 
>   How can a body do ethernet over ip on FreeBSD? I have heard that
>   with netgraph you can do that. Has anybody tried this or maybe some
>   other way? The goal is to connect two L2 networks on remote sites.

I have tried it.
You can connect a lower hook of ng_ether to a ng_ksocket to bridge ethernet
packets over UDP.
(Set this up at both ends.)

I don't remember the specifics; see man ng_ether and ng_ksocket.
-Dave
 
>   Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> ;  Nickolay A. Kritsky
> ; SysAdmin STAR Software LLC
> ; mailto:nkritsky@star-sw.com
> 
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