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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Subject: Re: Universal tap device
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:46:25 +0100 (CET)
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On Saturday 2013-02-16 15:01, Jiri Pirko wrote:

>Hi all.                                                                  
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>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?