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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: Universal tap device
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:54:30 +0100
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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.                                                                  
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>>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..