Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:21:29 -0500 From: Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:17:31AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote: > tap(4) is a direct interface between userland and the network. Only if you actually hook something up to the userland side. Otherwise, hooked to a bridge, it is exactly and only what vether(4) is. If tap(4) is not hooked up to anything on the userland side, why isn't it functionally equivalent to vether(4)? What is different in the idea of vether(4) that would make <https://gnats.netbsd.org/40139> work?
