netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1176149034.8459.36.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:03:54 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, kaber@...sh.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dim@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, containers@...ts.osdl.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, greearb@...delatech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 13:35 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Nor have I seen a rigorous adherence to all new network configuration
> using netlink.  The wireless code doesn't even seem to really try.

You're talking about the wext stuff that was invented ten years ago.
cfg80211/nl80211 which I was talking about actually does use netlink
almost exclusively (and you can add virtual interfaces using netlink)
but we also provided some easy sysfs attributes.

johannes

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (191 bytes)