Re: [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking: patch for existing tun

[Jim C. Brown]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:29:13PM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the lack of comment. I mostly use the 'user-net' networking so 
> I never bothered much about TUN/TAP.
> 
> What I can say is that the '-net xxx' option will be implemented to 
> solve the existing issues. My only concern is about ensuring backward 
> compatibility (if no one needs it then it is much simpler).
> 

Doubtful. Not many use tundev.c or tapdev.c

VDE is more popular but fixing it for a new syntax is a trivial change.
(Probably a one liner, even.) AFAIK nothing else will care.

> Another point is that I am very tempted to integrate a feature to 
> connect several qemu without needing an external program such as VDE. I 
> am thinking of it because it would be relatively easy to add to the 
> existing user-net code (user-net already simulates a kind of LAN).
> 

How would the syntax for this work?

> Fabrice.
> 
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