From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMZP9-0006OD-CH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:35:15 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMZP2-0006ML-Hb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:35:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMZP1-0006LB-GY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:35:07 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.9] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DMZOI-0005im-Io for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:34:25 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Regarding Linux TUN/TAP Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:33:19 +0100 References: <41e41e7a05041513075fe5764b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504152333.20902.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Another solution would be to run a PPP server on the host and connect > through PPP (using user-net) from the guest to the host. In this case, > provided the host routes the connection, you should have your virtual > machine fully on the net. This is no better than just using tun/tap. In fact it takes significantly more work to setup, and is probably slower. Paul