Re: [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking: patch for existing tun

[Jim C. Brown]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 03:07:02PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jim C. Brown wrote:

> Only objection is that for the tunfd case I would use
> 
>   -net tap,fd=10,macaddr=...
> 

Since it doesn't have to be a tap device, how about this?

   -net socket,fd=10,macaddr=...

> >For the tap type we could have a 3rd optional parameter for the name, 
> >e.g. -net tap,macaddr,name (with name defaulting to tapX if its not 
> >specified).
> 
> What about this:
> 
>    -net tap,ifname=qemu0,macaddr=...
> 

That looks fine.

> Regards
> Henrik
> 



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