Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC/net: Add a net filter

[Yang Hongyang]

Hi Stefan,

On 07/22/2015 09:26 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Yang Hongyang <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This patch add a net filter between network backend and NIC devices.
> > All packets will pass by this filter.
> > TODO:
> >   multiqueue support.
> >   plugin support.
>
> What do you mean by plugin?

A filter without plugin supplied will do nothing except pass by all packets, a
plugin like dump for example, will dump all packets into a file. Or other
plugins like a netbuffer plugin, will simply buffer the packets, release
the packets when needed. However, these are my thoughts about the usecase,
there might be more usecase about this.

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Thanks,
Yang.