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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
To: "Shiva Raman Pandey" <shiva@sasken.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Query about Tun/Tap Modules
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 12:46:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200109091746.MAA02088@ccure.karaya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Sep 2001 20:58:56 +0530." <9ng1q4$or1$1@ncc-z.sasken.com>

shiva@sasken.com said:
> Q1 : Now I am not able to understand how to use this module for my
> above stated purpose.
>      If anybody has used this utility(Tun/tap) before , please let me
> know how to get these ethernet packet going towards IP layer and IP
> packets going towards ethernet driver. 

It's not clear how similar my use of TUN/TAP is to what you want, but UML uses
TUN/TAP as one mechanism to network a virtual machine to the host, and it
works quite well.

See tuntap_up() in 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/user-mode-linux/tools/uml_net/uml_net.c?rev=1.10&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
for setting up a TUN/TAP interface and 
tuntap_user_read() and tuntap_user_write() (which are both trivial)
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/user-mode-linux/linux/arch/um/drivers/tuntap_user.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
for getting packets in and out of the interface.

				Jeff


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-09 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-09 15:28 Query about Tun/Tap Modules Shiva Raman Pandey
2001-09-09 15:59 ` Erik Andersen
2001-09-09 16:13   ` Peter T. Breuer
2001-09-09 17:46 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-09 16:15 Peter T. Breuer

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