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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  7 May 2010 14:04:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] tun/tap support for 9vx
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> 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