From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kirill Korotaev Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:14:29 +0400 Message-ID: <4667BE65.2060307@sw.ru> References: <4666CEAA.8010903@openvz.org> <20070606.124758.85411179.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: xemul@openvz.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, dev@openvz.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.233.200]:10221 "EHLO relay.sw.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751854AbXFGIOM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 04:14:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070606.124758.85411179.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: Pavel Emelianov > 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] AFAICS, ibmveth.c registers ethX devices, while this driver registers vethX by default, so there is no much conflict IMHO. But if you still don't like it, I would suggest 'ethtun' and later we will come with iptun for IP tunneling. Is it ok for you? Thanks, Kirill