From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
stephen@networkplumber.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: Universal tap device
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:35:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130217093520.GA1931@minipsycho.orion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201302162225.06536.arnd@arndb.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-17 9:35 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
2013-02-16 22:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-17 9:35 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2013-02-17 13:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-19 10:59 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
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