Re: [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:

> You point the real question: why it has been impossible to get accepted any 
> patch that fixed this. I has proposed one myself and I get no comment at all. 
> I see similar effort from others and obviousely there failed almost the same 
> way. No getting any valuable comment about why a idea proposed by many 
> peopoles is not applyed make this subject very hard.

I think it is in part due to the command line parsing of network 
parameters being all crap and need to be replaced by something more sane.

> I hope that we can resolve this subject, because in my point of view, using a 
> existing "tun" is far more simpler than create one the way quemu do

I agree that persistent tun tap devices is much easier to work with.

Regards
Henrik