From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 00:34:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA14956 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:34:02 -0700 Received: from wc.cdrom.com (wc.cdrom.com [192.216.223.37]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA14950 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:34:01 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by wc.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA06147 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:33:56 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA22219; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 17:00:36 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506290730.RAA22219@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: tunnel device To: Mario.Illgen@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Mario Illgen) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 17:00:35 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mario Illgen" at Jun 23, 95 02:35:17 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 951 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Mario Illgen stands accused of saying: > is there any description about this device?? Or am I right that this > is not an interface which does IP-in-IP-tunneling?? That's correct, although it would not be difficult to use it for that. (In fact, a friend will be writing just such a tool shortly.) Look at it as a network interface plugged into the back of a pty; packets sent out the interface are read by the process on the pty, packets written to the pty are received by the kernel from the interface. > Mario Illgen, TU Chemnitz-Zwickau, Fakultaet fuer Informatik -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[