Sangoma Technical News: November 27 2000

This news brief covers recent technical events at Sangoma.  Older events
will scroll off the end of the news brief as new ones are added, but
otherwise the announcements will be repeated on subsequent issues.


Linux WANPIPE version 2.1.5 with Bridging support
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November 21 2000:

New features:

o  Ethernet Bridging over Frame Relay
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We now support RFC compliant ethernet bridging over Frame Relay. This allows
logical modeling of an ordinary Ethernet LAN over a frame Relay network.
Because the bridging is completely transparent, everything applicable to a
LAN just works, including DHCP and support for all network protocols that
Ethernet supports.

Bridging is particularly useful when a Linux server provides the back end
concentrator for an ADSL DSLAM. Contact me, David Mandelstam, if you want to
know more about this application.

We have incorporated the original Frame Relay Bridging code written by Mark
Wells and Kristian Hoffmann into the wanpipe drivers, and have included it in 
the configuration options and management.

WanipeEthernetBridging.pdf in the WANPIPE distribution describes the
implementation.

Please NOTE, this is for 2.2.X Kernels and above only.