Subject: Re: A pure virtual nic

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:44:21 -0800

On 12/29/2011 05:51 PM, Li, Zhen-Hua wrote:
> I plan to add some protocols to it. For example, HTTP Proxy packet
> analysis. So user-space programs can use an NIC in common way in a
> proxy needed environment.

When a program transmits a packet on your virtual NIC, where does the
packet go?  When it receives a packet, where did the packet come from?

Thanks,
Ben

>
>
>
> 2011/12/29 Michał Mirosław<[email-masked]>:
>> 2011/12/29 Zhen-Hua Li<[email-masked]>:
>>> I have opened a project in SourceForge, it provides a pure virtual
>>> ethernet adapter.  If you are interested to join it, please mail me.
>>
>> Is veth or tap (both in vanilla kernel) not enough for you? What are
>> the differences?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Michał Mirosław
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