PPTP: PPP over IPv4 (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol)
authorDmitry Kozlov <xeb@mail.ru>
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:05:39 +0000 (23:05 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:05:39 +0000 (23:05 -0700)
commit00959ade36acadc00e757f87060bf6e4501d545f
tree9bfe790d4a8b63b0e6653388da73dfd777eea8ff
parent1003489e06c04d807c783a8958f2ccc9aed7a244
PPTP: PPP over IPv4 (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol)

PPP: introduce "pptp" module which implements point-to-point tunneling protocol using pppox framework
NET: introduce the "gre" module for demultiplexing GRE packets on version criteria
     (required to pptp and ip_gre may coexists)
NET: ip_gre: update to use the "gre" module

This patch introduces then pptp support to the linux kernel which
dramatically speeds up pptp vpn connections and decreases cpu usage in
comparison of existing user-space implementation
(poptop/pptpclient). There is accel-pptp project
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/accel-pptp/) to utilize this module,
it contains plugin for pppd to use pptp in client-mode and modified
pptpd (poptop) to build high-performance pptp NAS.

There was many changes from initial submitted patch, most important are:
1. using rcu instead of read-write locks
2. using static bitmap instead of dynamically allocated
3. using vmalloc for memory allocation instead of BITS_PER_LONG + __get_free_pages
4. fixed many coding style issues
Thanks to Eric Dumazet.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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drivers/net/Kconfig
drivers/net/Makefile
drivers/net/pptp.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/if_pppox.h
include/net/gre.h [new file with mode: 0644]
net/ipv4/Kconfig
net/ipv4/Makefile
net/ipv4/gre.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c