Re: Universal tap device

Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-16T22:25:48Z

On Saturday 16 February 2013, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> 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..

Isn't that the same as setting up macvtap in PASSTHRU mode?

Arnd