Re: [Qemu-devel] make qemu use tap0 instead of tun0

2005-07-09 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Jim C. Brown wrote: Ok this is not 100% true either. It wouldn't be too difficult to add a layer on top of the nic hw emulation that did ethernet frame to ip frame and vice versa before passing the frames to a tun device. (The user mode networking code already does ethernet

[Qemu-devel] make qemu use tap0 instead of tun0

2005-07-06 Thread Jim C. Brown
When in tuntap mode, qemu creates a tap device with names like tun0, tun1, etc. which seems to confuse some users (the smart ones who ask why qemu uses IP frames instead of ethernet frames ... or something along those lines). Theses should be named tap0, tap1, etc. This patch fixes qemu. I don't

Re: [Qemu-devel] make qemu use tap0 instead of tun0

2005-07-06 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:08:42PM -0400, Jim C. Brown wrote: When in tuntap mode, qemu creates a tap device with names like tun0, tun1, etc. which seems to confuse some users (the smart ones who ask why qemu uses IP frames instead of ethernet frames ... or something along those lines). Theses