discuss: Proposal: TUN/TAP HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Proposal: TUN/TAP HOWTO
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
21 Mar 2002 20:00:29 -0000
Message-Id: <20020321195917.GA14129@arborlon.riva.ucam.org>
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:45:23PM -0500, Moshe Jacobson wrote:
> I have been using the Linux kernel's generic TUN/TAP interface for a
> prorgram I'm writing. This interface is a virtual network interface
> that corresponds with a file in /dev; that is, you can write to the
> interface and ip packets or ethernet frames appear on /dev/net/tun,
> and you can write packets/frames to /dev/net/tun and they appear on
> the virtual network interface. Very useful for building VPN software.
>
> Figuring out how to use this interface was excessively difficult, and
> a big waste of time. There was *no* documentation *anywhere*, and
> there seems to exist only one (very complex) piece of software (vtun)
> that uses it.
Here's another:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~secnet/
(I use this to participate in a VPN of about a dozen sites with a group
of friends.)
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
