Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:37:26 -0500 From: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com> To: "'freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Ethernet TAP driver v0.2 released Message-ID: <BB28E4B22253D21185F80000C0A40100D44C53@njb140po06.ems.att.com>
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Hello All! I've released Ethernet TAP driver v0.2 for FreeBSD It provides a virtual Ethernet interface to the system. It also provides packet reception and transmission for user-space programs. It can be viewed as a simple Ethernet device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical medium, receives them from a user-space program and instead of sending packets via physical media, writes them to the user-space program. Changes since v 0.1 - FreeBSD kernel Ethernet bridging (by Luigi Rizzo) support added. This feature seems to be working, but it needs more testing. I've tested it with VTUN (http://vtun.netpedia.net). I had two Linux boxes connected with the same FreeBSD box with VTUN. The FreeBSD box was an Ethernet bridge. So all three boxes were on the same virtual Ethernet network. Thanks to Maxim Krasnyansky. DUMMYNET should be working also, but I did not test it. - Removig address from tapX interface when tapX device is closed It has been added in v 0.1a, but I did not announce it here The driver can be found at http://vtun.netpedia.net/tun/tap-0.2-freebsd.tar.gz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Folks, what do you think about smart user-space Ethernet bridge? Anyone needs it? Thanks, eMax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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