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From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: xemul@openvz.org, containers@lists.osdl.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, dev@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:14:29 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4667BE65.2060307@sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070606.124758.85411179.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:11:38 +0400
> 
> 
>>Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver
>>that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet
>>devices interconnected with each other.
> 
> 
> I would suggest choosing a different name.
> 
> 'veth' is also the name of the virtualized ethernet device
> found on IBM machines, driven by driver/net/ibmveth.[ch]

AFAICS, ibmveth.c registers ethX devices, while this driver registers
vethX by default, so there is no much conflict IMHO.

But if you still don't like it, I would suggest 'ethtun' and later
we will come with iptun for IP tunneling. Is it ok for you?

Thanks,
Kirill


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-07  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06 15:11 [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH] Module for ip utility to support veth device Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-06 15:18   ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-06 15:28 ` [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel Patrick McHardy
2007-06-07  8:09   ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07  9:29     ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-07  9:51       ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 14:05         ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-07 14:23           ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-06-07 14:42             ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-07 15:33               ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 15:25           ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 15:44             ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-11 11:39     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-13  9:24       ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-13 11:12         ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-13 16:02           ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-13 15:37             ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-06 15:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-06 16:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-06 19:47 ` David Miller
2007-06-06 20:38   ` [Devel] " Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-06 20:49     ` David Miller
2007-06-07  8:14   ` Kirill Korotaev [this message]
2007-06-07  9:07     ` David Miller
2007-06-07  9:30       ` Benjamin Thery

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