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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@Voltaire.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH-updated] qemu/net: add raw backend
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:29:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD6CF5E.4050109@Voltaire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091014153300.GA30889@redhat.com>

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> tap need IP assigning.

Hi Gleb, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the way we use tap here is attach it to a bridge from the one hand, and have Qemu write/read into/from it Ethernet frames from the other hand. This means that even the MAC address of tap isn't used, surely not an IP address.

Or.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-15  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14 14:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH-updated] qemu/net: add raw backend Or Gerlitz
2009-10-14 14:46 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-10-14 15:14   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-14 15:58     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-14 16:14       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-14 16:54         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-14 17:20           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-14 18:36         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-14 19:37           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-15  7:48           ` Or Gerlitz
2009-10-14 15:58     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-14 15:24   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-14 15:33     ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-15  7:29       ` Or Gerlitz [this message]
2009-10-15  7:44         ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-15  7:50           ` Or Gerlitz
2009-10-14 16:20   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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