Universal tap device

Jiri Pirko
2013-02-16T14:01:37Z

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.

This could use rx_handler to hook onto any netdev and provide chardev
tap-like iface to it. Using that, one can just hook onto macvlan device
and macvtap would not be needed.

This would allow other scenarios like vxlan-tap, vlan-tap, bond-tap or
whatever.

Does this idea seem to be reasonable?

Thanks

Jiri