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Message-ID: <20130217093520.GA1931@minipsycho.orion> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:35:20 +0100 From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, stephen@...workplumber.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net Subject: Re: Universal tap device Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:25:06PM CET, arnd@...db.de wrote: >On Saturday 16 February 2013, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:46:25PM CET, jengelh@...i.de wrote: >> >On Saturday 2013-02-16 15:01, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> > >> >>Hi all. >> >> >> >>Looking at macvtap and thinking about the tap solutions in general, >> >>I think it would be handly to have some universal tap device. >> > >> >As in, allowing tuntap to register as an rx_handler for arbitrary >> >devices? >> >> Essentially yes, but I was thinking without the actual netdev: >> not eth0 -> tap0 -> chardev >> but eth0 -> chardev >> >> Not sure though if that is easily doable.. > >Isn't that the same as setting up macvtap in PASSTHRU mode? Yep, but without netdev instance. That brings some issues. Maybe the netdev instance should be there. Not sure. > > Arnd -- 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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