The tap driver can retrieve a potentially unlimited number of packets
in a single poll. This can lead to heap exhaustion under heavy load.
Fix by imposing an artificial receive quota (as already used in other
drivers without natural receive limits).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Give tap devices a meaningful name, and avoid segmentation faults when
attempting to retrieve ${net0/bustype} by assigning a new bus type for
tap devices.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add the tap driver that can be used like:
$ ./ipxe.linux --net tap,if=tap0,mac=00:0c:29:c5:39:a1
The if setting is mandatory.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown