From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 1 9:23:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ckmso1.proxy.att.com (ckmso1.att.com [12.20.58.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4931B14F94 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 09:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myevmenkin@att.com) Received: from flf960r1.ems.att.com ([135.71.244.37]) by ckmso1.proxy.att.com (AT&T IPNS/MSO-2.2) with ESMTP id MAA04363 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:23:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from njb140bh3.ems.att.com by flf960r1.ems.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/ATTEMS-1.4.1 sol2) id MAA16625; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:19:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by njb140bh3.ems.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:23:33 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Ethernet TAP device driver released Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:23:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello All, It is time for new release :) The beta version of Ethernet TAP device driver for FreeBSD is released. I've written this device driver for VTUN (http://vtun.netpedia.net) software package. It is possible the coolest software to make tunnels over TCP/IP networks. For more details please see author's page. The TAP device driver is like TUN device driver, but it works with Ethernet packets. It allows to capture Ethernet packets and feed them to user space and vice versa. The driver can be found at http://vtun.netpedia.net/tun/tap-0.1-freebsd.tar.gz. I've tested it with VTUN on my FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE. It seems to me it works just fine. I'd like to ask to help me in testing and give some feed back. Thank you very much, Best regards, eMax. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message