> I see three possible options to handle this. > > (1) Write a hub (or morph the current vlan code into this). Then > you can do something like: > > qemu -netdev socket,id=p1 \ > -netdev user,id=p2 \ > -netdev dump,id=p3 \ > -switch peer=p1,peer=p2,monitor=p3,port=p4 \ > -device $nic,netdev=p4 > > (2) Implement the same as external daemon which can be combined with > -netdev socket. > > (3) Just point people who need this to the various virtual switch > projects (vde, ...) they can use and drop vlan.
(2) is just a special case of (3), where we decide that the existing implementations suck and go write our own. Paul
