[Devel] Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Jun 6 12:47:58 PDT 2007


From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul at openvz.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:11:38 +0400

> 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.

I would suggest choosing a different name.

'veth' is also the name of the virtualized ethernet device
found on IBM machines, driven by driver/net/ibmveth.[ch]

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