Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (tunnel)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Pavel Emelianov 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 general difference from etun is that a netlink interface
> is used to create and destroy the pairs. The patch for an
> ip utility is also provided.


Thats a lot better than using sysfs, but I think it would be
preferrable to use rtnetlink instead of genetlink for network
configuration.
_______________________________________________
Containers mailing list
Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers

[Index of Archives]     [Cgroups]     [Netdev]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Forum]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]

  Powered by Linux