Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:54:47 -0700

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:38:50 -0700
Ben Greear <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Why not implement a true virtual network rather than simple
> > tunnel pairs?
> >   
> What would a true virtual network do?  You mean with routers and such?

Rather than just a pair, you could do address matching of destination
address.

> 
> I use my redirect device (basically same as etun) to join virtual 
> routers together,
> but all of the virtual routing (and bridging, etc) logic is already in 
> the kernel
> and just has to be configured properly....
> 
> Ben
>