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Is it possible to send packets between network namespaces using only TUN/TAP interfaces?
I am trying to understand the difference between different types of (virtual) interfaces (e.g. TUN/TAP, veth etc.) and was studying some of these types within the context of containers.
Is it ...
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Detecting that a network interface is "physical" or "virtual" using only RTNETLINK on Linux?
I would like to detect whether a network interface is "physical" or "virtual", where "physical" means that the interface has hardware attached, even if that "hardware" is virtualized by a hypervisor. "...
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How to properly configure a tun/tap Interface in linux?
Basically I am trying to create a custom TCP Stack. As you might know I cant use eth0 because linux kernel TCP stack uses that, Due to that I need to create a tun/tap interface and use it for my ...
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Is it possible to implement IPv6 on a virtual interface (eth0:1 interface) in Linux?
If I assign an IPV6 address to the virtual interface created like eth0:1, then it gets automatically assigned to its real interface eth0.
It's all working fine on IPv4, but I need IPv6 on the ...
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How can we create multiple dummy interfaces on Linux?
To Create a Fake Ethernet dummy Interface On Linux we First initialize the dummy interface driver using the below command:
/sbin/modprobe dummy.
Then we Assign Ethernet Interface alias To Dummy Driver ...
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