David Miller wrote:
From: Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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]
Eric Biederman proposed the name "etun" which stands for "Ethernet TUNnel".
The goal of the pair device is to pass network packets between namespaces.
That reminds me the well known "pipe" which pass data between processes.
All network devices have a name describing what they do : "eth" for
ethernet,
"dummy" for a device doing nothing, loopback, ...
Perhaps, a name like "epipe" or "npipe", which reflects what does the
device, is more appropriate ?
-- Daniel
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