On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Out of curiosity, do you actually use VDE for distributed ethernet or
> just as an easy way to configure networking?
I use VDE daily even for non virtual-machine purposes like low bandwidth
vpns, ipv6 tunnel broker, network experiments (e.g.: wirefilter).
> I actually liked the libpcap patch as a good trade-off of
> performance/easy of use. I was under the impression that VDE is
> actually rather slow.
If you want an easy way to configure networking then have pcap support (or
slirp) is definitively a better choice. What VDE gives you is flexibility.
Thank you for your reply.
luca
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