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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:37:02 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> To: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.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 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (tunnel) On Wed, 02 May 2007 14:54:51 +0400 Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru> 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 ethtool stuff lets bonding and bridging work better. - 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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