Hi David,
On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 06:18:23PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 04:29:21PM -0400, david(a)ispsupplies.com wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with a bridged
APN on Open5GS?
As far as I know, 3GPP didn't really introduce "Ethernet" type PDN
contexts
until very recent releases. For a long time, IPv4, IPv6 and IPv4v6 were the
only available options.
I just checked: Etehernet type PDN connections are only supported in 5G,
but not in 4G/EPC. Even Releae 15 doesn't mention it at all.
So whatever some vendors may be offering, I would bet it is not really any
actual Ethernet bridging. It may be more something like proxy-ARP on the PGW
side, but still only passing IP over the 4G network.
The big question is: What is it used for, and what are the requirements of that
use case? A real Ethernet bridge would be transparent regarding the MAC addresses
on both sides. And that's what I'm stating is not possible over 4G as per 3GPP
specs.
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org>
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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