> 2010/5/7 Tully Gray <tullyg...@arc.net.au>: > > Hi, > > > > I have modified Erik Quanstrom's raw socket ethernet driver > > for 9vx so that it uses the Linux kernel's "tap" device. > > It seems to work just fine. I create the tap device first > > using "tunctl" which comes with the Usermode Linux toolkit > > but I don't think this is necessary. > > Thanks for this. My summer of code student will be working on wrapping > up some of this so that it's a bit nicer and more portable, and this > is a good start.
interesting. what's the advantage of the tap device? is the code available online? - erik
