Harald Welte wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:19:02PM +0100, Mathieu Geli wrote: > > >>Here is a patch that add a netlink virtual interface. > > > I really like the possibility that it offers. In fact, I always wanted > something like a 'promiscuous netlink socket'. > Whether it is the right thing to add a full-blown net_device for it, I > don't know. This really only is a kludge for scapy/ethereal/whatever, > since they just expect tu use network interfaces and AF_PACKET sockets. > > The question is whether we should introduce a net_device to work around > scapy/ethereal limitations - or whether we'd rather have some different > interface. > > I would like to hear comments from Dave, Jamal, Thomas Graf, Patrick > McHardy on this...
Its a useful feature, but I also don't like the virtual device approach. Something like raw sockets for netlink seems cleaner to me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
