On Feb 15, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> Netmap works at least on any interface visible to the OS > (in native or emulated mode, the latter with some limitations > e.g not when the interface is bound to a switch), > but ports of VALE switches and netmap pipes are dynamically created > so any name that starts with netmap: and vale results in a > valid netmap port. Is there any reason why dynamically creating a VALE switch or netmap port *as a result of opening a device in libpcap* would be useful? libpcap is generally used to capture and inject network traffic on already-existing interfaces; if you create a VALE switch or netmap port by opening netmap:helloworld in libpcap, what traffic will you see, and where will injected traffic go? _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
