From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add raw backend
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:21:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090701162115.GA4555@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0907011844470.32248@zuben.voltaire.com>
Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Add raw network backend option which uses a packet socket to provide
> raw networking access. Once the socket is opened its bouned to a
> provided host interface, such that packets received on the interface
> are delivered to the VM and packets sent by the VM are sent to the
> interface.
It looks like it would be functionally identical to the pcap network
backend, with the same advantages and problems, but one less
dependency on an external library (and removes any compatibility with
ancient kernels that are in libpcap, but QEMU doesn't work on them anyway).
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-01 15:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add raw backend Or Gerlitz
2009-07-01 16:21 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-07-02 12:25 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-03 2:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-07 13:33 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-07 14:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-08 14:45 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-14 13:54 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-15 20:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 21:52 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-16 8:29 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-20 14:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add raw backend - some performance measurements Or Gerlitz
2009-07-20 15:53 ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-20 18:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-21 1:46 ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-21 7:03 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-21 7:25 ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-21 7:25 ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-21 10:17 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-21 10:17 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-21 10:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-21 10:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-21 11:05 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-21 11:05 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-21 12:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-21 12:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-21 12:14 ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-21 12:14 ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-21 13:41 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-21 13:41 ` Or Gerlitz
[not found] ` <5b31733c0907011250i7afcdbcdnb844290de4ad64f2@mail.gmail.com>
2009-07-02 12:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add raw backend Or Gerlitz
2009-07-02 15:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-07 14:45 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-07 14:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-08 14:46 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-08 15:06 ` Or Gerlitz
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