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Better kernel support

Better kernel support

Posted Jul 13, 2010 9:09 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Better kernel support by dlang
Parent article: The road forward for systemd

Yes it did. IIRC it used an ethertap device to forward the packets up to itself in user-space. Then when the line was up it would repoint the default route to the ppp (or whichever) device and send out the packets. Very neat.


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