Re: [User-mode-linux-user] Requirement for ethertap daemon.

[David W. <dw...@in...>]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> ku...@ms... said:
> >  Ethertap device has just been replaced. 
> >  netlink_dev is open for removal rather than for improvements. 
> 
> OK. The new Ethertap in 2.4 looks far nicer. 

Upon further investigation, I'll revise that opinion. Regardless of 
being a cleaner implementation, the functionality isn't the same.

I don't like the way that you have to ifconfig the tap interface after the
UML has opened the character device. It means that the UML still has to
have a suid helper. I preferred the old behaviour where the interface
could be configured _once_ by root on the host, and the UML could open and
close the device as many times at it wanted to without needing root to
intervene again.

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dwmw2