On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:03:23PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-03-11 15:54, Kantecki, Tomasz: > > > > +Basic Forwarding sample application is a simple *skeleton* example of > > > > +a forwarding application. It has been extended to make use of CAT via > > > > +extended command line options and linking against the libpqos library. > > > > > > The skeleton aims to show a minimal piece of code (but bigger than hello > > > world). > > > For any other usage, I think the "l2fwd" name is more appropriate. > > > > > > > +DIRS-y += skeleton-cat > > > > > > > We have used skeleton app as basis for this sample code. It is just to keep > > it as simple as possible. > > Wouldn't it be confusing if we use "l2fwd" name for skeleton app > > functionality? > > I'm not sure. > We need more opinions.
Skeleton app does do a form of l2 forwarding, just without editing the mac addresses. I don't think having "skeleton" in the name of derived apps is a good thing, so I would vote for an l2fwd-based name. /Bruce