From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070606.124758.85411179.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4666CEAA.8010903@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kaber@trash.net, ebiederm@xmission.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, dev@openvz.org To: xemul@openvz.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40514 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751472AbXFFTrn (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:47:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4666CEAA.8010903@openvz.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Pavel Emelianov 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]