From: Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz@hhi.fraunhofer.de>
To: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"edumazet@google.com" <edumazet@google.com>,
"herbert@gondor.apana.org.au" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Trying to implement secondary loopback
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:08:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51432B72.20408@hhi.fraunhofer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLxGvwvH_krBDJ2i-si1LX2SKbeeRmXGR+0ZbtEB2oKWt-GoA@mail.gmail.com>
Am 15.03.2013 14:56, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Thomas Martitz
> <thomas.martitz@hhi.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>> I want the loopback during development of the NIC hardware. Once the NIC is
>> done I drop the loopback and the card will be used for real networking.
>> Thus, I want the loopback to a) test my driver, and b) test the hardware
>> (for each milestone) as I'm implementing it.
>
> Sorry, I still don't get why you need a loopback device for that.
>
What's wrong with loopback? It's the simplest method to get basic
bidirectional data transfer going.
Can you suggest an alternative approach?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-15 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-12 12:05 Trying to implement secondary loopback Thomas Martitz
2013-03-13 11:13 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-03-13 20:38 ` Martitz, Thomas
2013-03-13 20:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-13 21:07 ` AW: " Martitz, Thomas
2013-03-13 21:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-13 22:01 ` AW: " Martitz, Thomas
2013-03-15 7:30 ` Thomas Martitz
2013-03-15 8:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-15 13:49 ` Thomas Martitz
2013-03-15 13:56 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-03-15 14:08 ` Thomas Martitz [this message]
2013-03-15 14:16 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-03-15 14:20 ` Thomas Martitz
2013-03-15 14:32 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-03-15 14:35 ` Thomas Martitz
2013-03-15 14:45 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-03-15 14:50 ` Thomas Martitz
2013-03-15 15:07 ` Thomas Martitz
2013-03-15 15:15 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-03-15 15:37 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-03-15 19:48 ` Martitz, Thomas
2013-03-18 9:33 ` Thomas Martitz
2013-03-15 18:36 ` Ben Hutchings
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-11 9:49 Thomas Martitz
2013-03-11 9:25 Thomas Martitz
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