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Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 14:34:42 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru> CC: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>, Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>, devel@...nvz.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (tunnel) Pavel Emelianov wrote: > Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver > that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet > devices interconnected with each other. > > Mainly it allows to communicate between network namespaces but > it can be used as is as well. > > Eric recently sent a similar driver called etun. This > implementation is closer to the OpenVZ one and it lacks > some unimportant features of etun driver (like ethtool_ops) > for simplicity. > > The general difference from etun is that a netlink interface > is used to create and destroy the pairs. The patch for an > ip utility is also provided. Thats a lot better than using sysfs, but I think it would be preferrable to use rtnetlink instead of genetlink for network configuration. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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