Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:05:13 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: net@freebsd.org Cc: m_evmenkin@yahoo.com Subject: Tap driver. Message-ID: <397CBD99.2781E494@elischer.org>
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I am slightly curious why the 'tap' driver was written.
It seems to duplicate the 'tun' driver to a large extent.
It could also be implemeted pretty easily with the netgraph
interface type. Certainly it might have been easier to
add the extra bells and whistles to one of these existing
pseudo-interfaces than to rewrite and add a third...
In fact I was considering whether the tun device could go away and
be implemented using negraph..
It would give the opportunity of having arbitrary in-kernel
processing of packets being received and sent.
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