From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, ebiederm@xmission.com,
stephen@networkplumber.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: Universal tap device
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:54:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130216165430.GC1536@minipsycho.orion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1302161743180.8831@nerf07.vanv.qr>
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..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-16 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-16 14:01 Universal tap device Jiri Pirko
2013-02-16 16:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-02-16 16:54 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2013-02-16 22:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-17 9:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2013-02-17 13:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-19 10:59 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
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