Re: af_packet bug?

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

> The emulated machine communicates with other network hosts by sending
> ethernet packets using af_packet.  But since this doesn't work for
> talking to the host machine the emulator is running on, the emulator
> must strip off the ethernet header and send those packets to the
> loopback device.  Does that sound like a plausible solution?

The tun and/or ethertap devices have been exactly designed to make such
things possible.


-Andi