Re: [Qemu-devel] make qemu use tap0 instead of tun0

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Jim C. Brown wrote:

> Ok this is not 100% true either. It wouldn't be too difficult to add a layer on
> top of the nic hw emulation that did ethernet frame to ip frame and vice versa
> before passing the frames to a tun device. (The user mode networking code
> already does ethernet frame conversion.) So it wouldn't be that difficult to
> get to work, and you wouldn't lose too much either (only IP-based protocols
> such as TCP or UDP would work, but I've never heard of anyone trying to use
> IPX or even IPv6 with qemu so that probably is not an issue).

Not entirely sure how you would map this.. tun is a point-to-point device. 
There is no broadcasts, no ARP, just plain unicast protocol packets 
(usually IP, but may be any protocol supported by the host).

Regards
Henrik