Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of PluggingIn

Timestamp:

Mar 20, 2012 11:47:28 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

mikeryan

Comment:

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PluggingIn

@@ -15 +15 @@
 For platforms that do not have VDE support, TAP support is sufficient. {{{vde_plug2tap}}} acts as an adapter between a VDE switch port and a TAP interface. VDE also comes with {{{vde_tunctl}}} which can create TAP interfaces on the fly to be used by other apps.
 
-The following example illustrates how one might do this with QEMU. QEMU has native VDE support, but we'll assume for a moment that we can't use it:
+The following example illustrates how one might do this with QEMU. QEMU has native VDE support, but we'll assume for a moment that we can't use it.
 
 {{{
@@ -24 +24 @@
 
 vde_tunctl tap0
-vde_plug2tap -d -s $SWITCH_SOCKET -p $SWITCH_PORT
+vde_plug2tap -d -s $SWITCH_SOCKET -p $SWITCH_PORT tap0
 qemu -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0 fs.img
 }}}
 
 If you don't even have TAP support.. get creative. Chances are if you can talk to a file descriptor pair {{{vde_plug}}} will work for you.
+
+=== Interface Attributes ===
+
+The info you care about will be attributes on each interface.
+
+ * {{{ip4_address}}}
+ * {{{ip4_netmask}}}
+ * {{{benito:mac_address}}}
+ * {{{benito:vde_switch}}} (switch socket full path)
+ * {{{benito:vde_port}}} (switch port)
 
 === Control Net ===