From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] tun/tap support for 9vx
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 14:04:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27864cda653cd2a0863bca82af04b999@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n2w9ab217671005071100pcbaf1b2aha83bb77cc275afbb@mail.gmail.com>
> 2010/5/7 Tully Gray <tullygray@arc.net.au>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have modified Erik Quanstrom's raw socket ethernet driver
> > for 9vx so that it uses the Linux kernel's "tap" device.
> > It seems to work just fine. I create the tap device first
> > using "tunctl" which comes with the Usermode Linux toolkit
> > but I don't think this is necessary.
>
> Thanks for this. My summer of code student will be working on wrapping
> up some of this so that it's a bit nicer and more portable, and this
> is a good start.
interesting. what's the advantage of the tap device?
is the code available online?
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-07 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-07 17:54 Tully Gray
2010-05-07 18:00 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-05-07 18:04 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-05-07 18:08 ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-07 18:14 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-05-07 18:47 ` Tully Gray
2010-05-07 18:57 ` Bakul Shah
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