Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:38:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: SimsS@Infi.Net (Steve Sims) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tun0 device Message-ID: <199609171638.LAA07486@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199609161836.OAA27880@mh004.infi.net> from "Steve Sims" at Sep 16, 96 02:36:17 pm
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> Where's the seminal reference on the tunnel device? =20 > > `apropos tunnel` yields nada. Ditto for `man tun`. > > I don't have a *recent* handbook, but the one I have mentions it only in = > passing. > > Muchas Gracias in advance.... RTFS :-) It's actually quite trivial (at least from my experience) and quite nice: The tun device looks and acts like any other Point to Point network interface. Configure it as such. Open the corresponding /dev/tunX device and you can read packets that the system sent with your program, and/or you can inject packets back into the system's IP processing. It is fairly straightforward from what little I've played with it. ... JG
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