Re: [User-mode-linux-devel] uml ethernet interface - code

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

gbr...@mi... said:
> It isn't going to endup being any changes to the virtual ethernet
> driver to make my idea work, the userland daemon acting as the virtual
> network would simply have another connection to it connected to the
> ethertap.

Ok.  I think I can buy this.

> SLIP was designed to only carry IP over the serial link, this is one
> of the major reasons PPP came about as it can carry mostly arbitrary
> protocols. 

Should we consider that the ethertap-based virtual network obsoletes the 
existing umn driver?  Or are there things that an ethertap-based umn would be 
good for that the virtual network wouldn't?

				Jeff