[Devel] Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

Stephen Hemminger shemminger at linux-foundation.org
Fri Apr 6 13:54:47 PDT 2007


On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:38:50 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Why not implement a true virtual network rather than simple
> > tunnel pairs?
> >   
> What would a true virtual network do?  You mean with routers and such?

Rather than just a pair, you could do address matching of destination
address.

> 
> I use my redirect device (basically same as etun) to join virtual 
> routers together,
> but all of the virtual routing (and bridging, etc) logic is already in 
> the kernel
> and just has to be configured properly....
> 
> Ben
> 
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