From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
stephen@networkplumber.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: Universal tap device
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:25:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201302162225.06536.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130216165430.GC1536@minipsycho.orion>
On Saturday 16 February 2013, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:46:25PM CET, jengelh@inai.de wrote:
> >On Saturday 2013-02-16 15:01, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >
> >>Hi all.
> >>
> >>Looking at macvtap and thinking about the tap solutions in general,
> >>I think it would be handly to have some universal tap device.
> >
> >As in, allowing tuntap to register as an rx_handler for arbitrary
> >devices?
>
> Essentially yes, but I was thinking without the actual netdev:
> not eth0 -> tap0 -> chardev
> but eth0 -> chardev
>
> Not sure though if that is easily doable..
Isn't that the same as setting up macvtap in PASSTHRU mode?
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-16 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-16 14:01 Universal tap device Jiri Pirko
2013-02-16 16:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-02-16 16:54 ` Jiri Pirko
2013-02-16 22:25 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-02-17 9:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2013-02-17 13:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-19 10:59 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
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