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#18
Originally Posted by micalil View Post
Hi Wek,
unfortunately I'm living a bit busy right now so I've put on hold a lot of things, even this one, but I'm posting some of my doubts regarding the silrp solution. Maybe it cuold be useful for other readers.

What we are trying to do here is bridging a tap/tun to an interface with UNSPEC link type (gprs0), is it even possible? Even if the qemu code is about untagged vlan, somebody already tried to bridge that interface with anything resembles an ethernet?

Then, let's talk about layer 3: for what I can see we add an interface beetwen the gprs0 and an ipotethical pan0 (we're still talking about tethering, right?). But at IP level what it gives us?

Even if we bridge successfully everything how could the stuff route correctly packets out of gprs0 without senting out routing errors?

Imho the whole approach as flaws so big that any resolutuin wouldn't be any smaller than rewrite lot of ip routines in userland...

I will elaborate more only if requested, since I'm living on the run
Well I have it working on my PC which should be enough proof
for the principle ;-) And - as already stated - I had it running
on my unfortunately stolen N810 between wlan0 and pan0 or
alternatively an usb-plugged ethernet (unfortunately not possible
with N900 due to missing OTG as it looks).
Actually it shouldn't make any difference how the internet
connection looks like as long as a working socket-interface is
provided to userspace-applications.