From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: xemul@openvz.org, containers@lists.osdl.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, dev@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:38:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46671B33.60907@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070606.124758.85411179.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:11:38 +0400
>
>
>> Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver
>> that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet
>> devices interconnected with each other.
>>
>
> I would suggest choosing a different name.
>
> 'veth' is also the name of the virtualized ethernet device
> found on IBM machines, driven by driver/net/ibmveth.[ch]
>
Eric Biederman proposed the name "etun" which stands for "Ethernet TUNnel".
The goal of the pair device is to pass network packets between namespaces.
That reminds me the well known "pipe" which pass data between processes.
All network devices have a name describing what they do : "eth" for
ethernet,
"dummy" for a device doing nothing, loopback, ...
Perhaps, a name like "epipe" or "npipe", which reflects what does the
device, is more appropriate ?
-- Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-06 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 15:11 [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH] Module for ip utility to support veth device Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-06 15:18 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-06 15:28 ` [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel Patrick McHardy
2007-06-07 8:09 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 9:29 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-07 9:51 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 14:05 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-07 14:23 ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-06-07 14:42 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-07 15:33 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 15:25 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 15:44 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-11 11:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-13 9:24 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-13 11:12 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-13 16:02 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-13 15:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-06 15:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-06 16:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-06 19:47 ` David Miller
2007-06-06 20:38 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2007-06-06 20:49 ` [Devel] " David Miller
2007-06-07 8:14 ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-06-07 9:07 ` David Miller
2007-06-07 9:30 ` Benjamin Thery
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