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authorJames Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>2010-04-02 02:18:33 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-03 17:56:02 -0400
commitfd558d186df2c13a22455373858bae634a4795af (patch)
treeed05523913473b6ba7658c6e8d72a1642cce1851 /net/l2tp/Kconfig
parent21b4aaa14329db793832e865f15000c5c0192ac3 (diff)
l2tp: Split pppol2tp patch into separate l2tp and ppp parts
This patch splits the pppol2tp driver into separate L2TP and PPP parts to prepare for L2TPv3 support. In L2TPv3, protocols other than PPP can be carried, so this split creates a common L2TP core that will handle the common L2TP bits which protocol support modules such as PPP will use. Note that the existing pppol2tp module is split into l2tp_core and l2tp_ppp by this change. There are no feature changes here. Internally, however, there are significant changes, mostly to handle the separation of PPP-specific data from the L2TP session and to provide hooks in the core for modules like PPP to access. Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1#
2# Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
3#
4
5menuconfig L2TP
6 tristate "Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)"
7 depends on INET
8 ---help---
9 Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
10
11 From RFC 2661 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2661.txt>.
12
13 L2TP facilitates the tunneling of packets across an
14 intervening network in a way that is as transparent as
15 possible to both end-users and applications.
16
17 L2TP is often used to tunnel PPP traffic over IP
18 tunnels. One IP tunnel may carry thousands of individual PPP
19 connections. L2TP is also used as a VPN protocol, popular
20 with home workers to connect to their offices.
21
22 The kernel component handles only L2TP data packets: a
23 userland daemon handles L2TP the control protocol (tunnel
24 and session setup). One such daemon is OpenL2TP
25 (http://openl2tp.org/).
26
27 If you don't need L2TP, say N. To compile all L2TP code as
28 modules, choose M here.