On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:35:19PM +0100, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that the uml_switch had a possible -tap argument, in which you
> can specify a tap device that it is connected to. I'd like to use this
> in a configuration where I have lots of uml_switch instances running,
> connecting different uml instances together, and each of the uml_switch
> instance has the same -tap attribute.
>
> Is it possible to use it that way?
No - each switch gets it own tap. The purpose is to allow access to
the outside world through a tap device. However, a bunch of switches
can communicate with each other through the host, each with its own
tap. This works the same way that a bunch of UMLs with separate taps
can talk to each other.
Jeff
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