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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:14:52 -0700
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Patrick McHardy wrote:

> It would be nice if someone would finally come up with a generic
> interface based on netlink (RTM_NEWLINK) instead of adding yet
> another couple of homegrown interfaces.

My preference is for ioctls, procfs, or similar that does not
require extra libraries.  Ethtool is an ioctl based approach,
so that could potentially be used, though I'm not sure if
that's the right place to put it...

Ben


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