From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] tun/tap support for 9vx
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 19:14:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h2z9ab217671005071114ncd8f21a5i3a7dd35a0920e674@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <752a0b369ee920d05c3a72bfe359bfec@ladd.quanstro.net>
2010/5/7 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>> interesting. what's the advantage of the tap device?
>> is the code available online?
>
> duh. sorry. missed the attachment. having peeked
> at the code, do you think that the tap devices is a
> complete replacement for the raw socket?
Yes. The tap(4) interface allows you to clone an existing ethernet
device on the system, and it's what most virtualization platforms use.
I had an ethertap.c in there, but never finished it up. It'll be
something that gets done for GSoC this year anyway.
--dho
> - erik
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-07 18:14 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
2010-05-07 18:08 ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-07 18:14 ` Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2010-05-07 18:47 ` Tully Gray
2010-05-07 18:57 ` Bakul Shah
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