Re: Universal tap device

Jiri Pirko
2013-02-17T09:35:24Z

Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:25:06PM CET, arnd@arndb.de wrote:
>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?

Yep, but without netdev instance. That brings some issues. Maybe the
netdev instance should be there. Not sure.

>
> Arnd