[Nottingham] NIC MACs aliases & IP aliases

Chris Burton Chris at 7of9b.org
Sat Mar 28 12:38:55 UTC 2009


> One grey bit... Is there any difference between tap and tun other than
> in name?

Yes there is a difference, the docs (Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt 
from the kernel source) say:
TUN works with IP frames. TAP works with Ethernet frames.

So it depends how low you need to go :).

ChrisB. 





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