Pavel Emelianov wrote: > Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver > that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet > devices interconnected with each other. > > Mainly it allows to communicate between network namespaces but > it can be used as is as well. > > Eric recently sent a similar driver called etun. This > implementation is closer to the OpenVZ one and it lacks > some unimportant features of etun driver (like ethtool_ops) > for simplicity. > > The general difference from etun is that a netlink interface > is used to create and destroy the pairs. The patch for an > ip utility is also provided.
Thats a lot better than using sysfs, but I think it would be preferrable to use rtnetlink instead of genetlink for network configuration. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
