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Date:      Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:48:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      snort Snort <snort_sam@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   network resquest to tap pseudo device driver
Message-ID:  <20050706054855.53812.qmail@web54405.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hi,

Can anybody tell me what benefit for building a tap
pseudo ethernet device driver for some sort of network
communication? Why not directly communicate thru a
"real" ethernet device driver like fxp0, xl0, etc.

Thanks
Sam


		
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