Subject: Re: ethertap vs. tuntap?
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 16:50:23 MST
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:57:41AM -0600, David Wagner wrote:
> I became interested in ethertap as a result of recent discussions on this
> list. I discovered that I did not have ethertap enabled in my 2.4 kernel,
> and so I rsync'd the latest version of linux-pmac-devel. When I started to
> reconfigure, I discovered that ethertap is now considered obsolete. A
> little more searching revealed that the replacement facility is "tuntap".
>
> Samuel, do you have any plans to migrate Mol to use tuntap instead of
> ethertap?
Well, I have been about to investigate what supposedly made
ethertap obsolete. Adapting to a interface (tuntap) should be
rather simple.
At the moment, I'm examining how much work it would take
rewrite the mac-side ethernet driver using Apple's latest
sample code. I think this might fix the IP-printing issue
(and I really want this fixed).
/Samuel
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