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Date:      10 Mar 1999 22:11:46 +0000
From:      Terry Glanfield <terry@ppsl.demon.co.uk>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tunnel loopback
Message-ID:  <elnh5gfkt.fsf@ppsl.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: julian@whistle.com's message of "9 Mar 99 19:10:30 GMT"
References:  <9903091652.AA04146@ppsl.demon.co.uk> <36E57226.15FB7483@whistle.com>

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julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
> Terry Glanfield wrote:
> > I've been trying to use a FreeBSD (3.0-RELEASE and 3.1-RELEASE) tunnel
> > device (/dev/tunN) to push packets back onto the IP stack[1] with some
> > success.  
> 
> You might find that using ipfw and divert sockets is a much more natural
> fit to this problem.

Indeed it was.  I now have outbound packets pushed into tun0 then
diverted out and inbound SKIP packets diverted and shoved into tun0.
Works a treat - cheers Julian.

Regards,
Terry.



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