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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:14:30 +0100
From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Updated: Use existing tun/tap network
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Lars Munch wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have just updated my priviously posted "Use existing tun/tap network
> interface" patch against latest cvs.
> 
> For description see here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-11/msg00454.html
> 
> Please apply.

OK for the idea, but we could go further: maybe we could use a specific 
syntax for QEMU network interfaces in order to avoid the numerous 
options we have. For example:

-net if_name where 'if_name' is an interface name. Several -net options 
can be added for each network interface.

if_name can be:

user (for slirp mode)
tun
fd:n
if:xxx where xxx is a network interface
hex (outgoing packet dump)

Fabrice.