Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Schmidtke <steve_schmidtke@hotmail.com> writes:
    Steve> Agreed, it would be an unwieldy solution.  And it's obvious
    Steve> you need fine grained control to manage packets in your test
    Steve> environment, sorry if it sounded like I was telling you what
    Steve> you should do.  What I was trying to point out (and thinking
    Steve> out loud) is that an ARP generator can be connected *to*
    Steve> uml_switch, it doesn't have to be built *into* uml_switch.

  Yes, that could be done.
  If you needed more sophistication than we have, then you'd want to do
exactly that.

    Steve> Strip down the UML kernel's daemon_user.c and what you have
    Steve> is a framework to talk socket datagrams to a uml_switch.  Add

  That's probably not the best idea. We put the interfaces in two places
right now... Best would be if a refactored uml_switch exported an
interface that replaced daemon_user.c :-)

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