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To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> tap need IP assigning.

Hi Gleb, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the way we use tap here is attach it to a bridge from the one hand, and have Qemu write/read into/from it Ethernet frames from the other hand. This means that even the MAC address of tap isn't used, surely not an IP address.

Or.