from what I can tell, tap just lets a programs use it, but one needs a
user space app behind it (reading and writing to it). It doesn't seem
to have the ability to live on the network like vmware's vmnet stuff
does, perhaps I'm wrong and was confused by the web page.
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 02:07, Peter Svensson wrote:
> On 5 Sep 2002, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> > Is there any open code that is similiar to what vmware provides that
> > enables one to create virtual ethernet adapters? I've seen the tap
> > device, but that's not what I need.
>
> In what way is it not what you need? What do you need?
>
> Peter
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