From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030233AbVIIQ5w (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:57:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030247AbVIIQ5w (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:57:52 -0400 Received: from ns1.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.210]:61397 "EHLO www.lanforge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030233AbVIIQ5v (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:57:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4321BF0C.2000007@candelatech.com> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:57:48 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Fedora/1.7.10-1.3.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Boldi CC: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Physical device to Kernel-netlink mapper References: <200509091538.27605.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: <200509091538.27605.a1426z@gawab.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Al Boldi wrote: > Is there a virtual device that would allow to connect the communication paths > from the physical devs into the kernel netlink subsystem in a way that would > be more flexible than what is currently avaible? > > Something like this: > > Kernel-netlink > | > virtual dev > | > --> mapper/conf <-- > | > physical dev(s) > > tun/tap,bridge,bond... are devs that incorporate this idea, but don't allow > for a flexible configuration. I have some other types of virtual (ethernet-ish) interfaces, but I have no idea what you are really asking.... Please explain in more detail. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com