From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 17 05:47:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA05014 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 05:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA05009 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 05:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA09223; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:06:47 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604171236.WAA09223@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ip-in-ip tunnel To: dirk@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Dirk Froemberg) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:06:46 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, xadmin@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de, alf@bolzen.in-berlin.de In-Reply-To: from "Dirk Froemberg" at Apr 17, 96 01:12:46 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dirk Froemberg stands accused of saying: > > Another approach might be to create a interface doing the encapsulation. > The implementation of the ip-in-ip-encapsulation itself is not very > difficult. At the moment we are a stucked "a little bit" in the > BSD-networking-code. Write a small program that talks to the 'tun' device and sends/receives IP datagrams. For every interface tunX there's a matching device /dev/tunX, see /sys/net/if_tun.c. > Dirk Froemberg -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[