Re: [mpls-linux-devel] Re: XFRM (was Re: 2.6 Spec: Random comments.)

[James R. L. <jl...@mi...>]

Thanks for the feed back.  We'll leave you alone now :-)

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:07:53AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:46:53 -0600
> "James R. Leu" <jl...@mi...> wrote:
> 
> > I just wanted to get David's take on using XFRM for the Layer 3 to MPLS
> > mapping which would utilize dst stacking?
> > 
> > It XFRM capable of doing this, any pointers as to where to start?
> 
> XFRM wants to work with protocol stacking at the protocol level (ie. things
> within ipv4, or ipv6).
> 
> We could tweak it to do this, but I advise against this initially because
> this way we can stick the MPLS stack more simply into 2.4.x if we wanted
> to (and I certainly might want to do that).
> 
> After we're done, and did a 2.4.x backport if desired, we can look into
> using XFRM.  But I don't advise this now.
> 
> 
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James R. Leu
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