Re: Universal tap device

Jiri Pirko
2013-02-16T16:54:35Z

Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:46:25PM CET, jengelh@inai.de wrote:
>On Saturday 2013-02-16 15:01, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>
>>Hi all.
>>
>>Looking at macvtap and thinking about the tap solutions in general,
>>I think it would be handly to have some universal tap device.
>
>As in, allowing tuntap to register as an rx_handler for arbitrary
>devices?

Essentially yes, but I was thinking without the actual netdev:
not eth0 -> tap0 -> chardev
but eth0 -> chardev

Not sure though if that is easily doable..