On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> this can be used to plumb things together.

If you want to plumb things together, do you need libpcap?

> Say you want to interconnect two VMs,

Why would I use libpcap for that?

> or a traffic generator and a firewall/ids/monitor
> that you want to test for performance, etc.

But wouldn't I create a netmap pipe using something other than libpcap, and 
only use libpcap if I want to watch the traffic on that pipe?

I.e., what would be lost if, for example, libpcap only supported capturing on 
existing netmap devices, and didn't support creating new ones on the fly?
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