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RE: [Xen-users] veth0 is from netback and vifu.0 is from thebridge-utils

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Ian Pratt wrote:

>
>
> > Hi.  what creates veth0 and vifu.0, when?  what's the
> > underlying architecture behind them?  Just trying to
> > understand the internals.
>
> netback/loopback.c creates them.
>
> It's effectively a point to point link, allowing domain 0 to connect on
> to the bridge in the same manner that other domains do. (before, packets
> to domain 0 were short-cutted and came off the bridge directly, which
> could lead to traffic from other domains being stalled if a lot of
> traffic was destined to user space in dom0.

thx.  what's the diff betwn the two (veth0 and vifu.0) ?

>
> Best,
> Ian
>
> )
>




Cheers,
Anthony

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