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From: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] tun: export underlying socket
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:07:25 +0300
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On 9/10/09, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>  This way, code using raw sockets to inject packets into a physical device,
>  can support injecting packets into host network stack almost without modification.
>  First user of this interface will be vhost virtualization accelerator.

vhost injects packet into physical device, what is the use case of
vhost injecting packet into the host network stack?

Or.