On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Jan Kiszka<address@hidden> 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].