eoip

This is an implement of MikroTik's EoIP/EoIPv6 tunnel for Linux using TAP. EoIP (Ethernet over IP) and EoIPv6 (Ethernet over IPv6) are MikroTik RouterOS's Layer 2 tunneling protocol.

The EoIP protocol encapsulates Ethernet frames in the GRE (IP protocol number 47) packets, and EoIPv6 protocol encapsulates Ethernet frames in the EtherIP (IP protocol number 97) packets.

Usage

Usage: eoip [ OPTIONS ] IFNAME { remote RADDR } { local LADDR } { id TID }
                               [ mtu MTU ] [ uid UID ] [ gid GID ] [ fork ]
where: OPTIONS := { -4 | -6 }

The parameters are pretty self-explanatory. RADDR = remote address, LADDR = local address, TID = tunnel ID, and OPTIONS can be either -4 (EoIP) or -6 (EoIPv6), EoIP will be used if unset.

Optionally you might choose to set MTU, set UID/GID of the process, or fork process to the background. If you set fork, eoip will fork to background and print PID to stdout.

Example

On MikroTik:

[user@mikrotik] > /interface eoip add local-address=172.17.0.1 name=eoip-1 remote-address=172.17.0.2 tunnel-id=100

On Linux:

# gcc eoip.c -o eoip
# ./eoip -4 tap1 local 172.17.0.2 remote 172.17.0.1 id 100

Now tap1 on Linux is connected to eoip-1 on MikroTik.

Protocol

EoIP uses IP Protocol 47, which is the same as GRE.

Here's the packet format of EoIP:

0                   1                   2                   3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|       GRE FLAGS 0x20 0x01     |      Protocol Type  0x6400    | = "\x20\x01\x64\x00"
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|   Encapsulated frame length   |           Tunnel ID           |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Ethernet frame...                                             |

(noticed that encapsulated frame length is in BE while Tunnel ID is in LE)

EoIPv6 is much simpler. It use IP Protocol 97, which is the same as EtherIP:

0                   1                   2                   3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|  EoIP HEADER  | Ethernet frame...                             |

Header part of EoIPv6 are similar to RFC3378. The 12 reserved bits in the EtherIP header are now Tunnel ID. MikroTik also swaps the first four bits with second four bits in the EtherIP header, so the header looks like this:

0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12  13  14  15
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|               |               |                               |
|  TID Part 1   |    VERSION    |          TID Part 2           |
|               |               |                               |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

where VERSION = "\x03".

Contribute/Bugs

Feel free to send PR or report issue on the Github project page at:

https://github.com/Nat-Lab/eoip

Licenses

MIT