On 07/13/2010 07:48 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho wrote:
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Jan Kiszka<jan.kis...@web.de> wrote:
Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho wrote:
This series removes the vlan stuff without mercy. I've tried to make the steps
as small as possible, but the last one is huge. I did some basic tests and
networking is still working, so reviews are welcome :-D
Sorry, this is a bit too rude. This not only removes the vlan model,
something one may talk about, but also the innocent socket back-ends and
the useful pcap dump support.
Socket back-ends allow quick and easy unprivileged inter-VM network
setups. Nothing for production systems, but useful for testing purposes
on boxes where taps are not allowed or unhandy to configure.
I agree that it might be handy sometimes, but one could use VDE for
that too. Runs on user-space and can be tunneled over SSH or netcat
[1].
Yes, I know. But it requires yet another process as hop. In contrast,
peer-to-peer sockets used to be as fast as taps in certain setup (now
taps became faster again).
Dump is critical to maintain.
sockets is not terribly useful without vlan. Honestly, I have a hard
time agreeing that it's terribly useful to begin with. I don't buy an
argument about "ease-of-use" because how to properly configure the
sockets backend is not at all obvious.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
