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[NET]: Virtual ethernet device driver.
authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:14:46 +0000 (16:14 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:47:46 +0000 (16:47 -0700)
commite314dbdc1c0dc6a548ecf0afce28ecfd538ff568
treef774e598ebb997c108b1d757cd4b27f7bbca9a28
parente71992889ee289a87f6641cfa40d64a5699bcb53
[NET]: Virtual ethernet device driver.

Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver
that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet
devices interconnected with each other.

Mainly it allows to communicate between network namespaces but
it can be used as is as well.

The newlink callback is organized that way to make it easy to
create the peer device in the separate namespace when we have
them in kernel.

This implementation uses another interface - the RTM_NRELINK
message introduced by Patric.

Bug fixes from Daniel Lezcano.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/Kconfig
drivers/net/Makefile
drivers/net/veth.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/net/veth.h [new file with mode: 0644]