From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 30 16:47:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA13574 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:47:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13566 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16838 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:47:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (proff@localhost) by suburbia.net (8.7.4/Proff-950810) id LAA10960 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:46:41 +1100 From: Julian Assange Message-Id: <199610310046.LAA10960@suburbia.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IP tunneling To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:46:40 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: <96Oct30.100232pst.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Oct 30, 96 10:02:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Packets sent on the tun* interfaces show up as data to be read on /dev/tun*. > Data written on /dev/tun* shows up as input packets on the tun* interfaces. > So, if you want to do UDP encapsulated tunnelling, you should do something like Are there as yet no userland tools to do this? It seems like something that should be addressed. What about IPIP? Writing can be done easily enough with IP_HDRINCL, but how do you go about reading such packets short of bpf? -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | C7F81C2AA32D7D4E4D360A2ED2098E0D | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+