[ale] Information on Linux tun/tap?

Michael B. Trausch fd0man at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 22:51:13 EST 2007


On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 20:19 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 19:48 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > I was looking for information on Linux's tun/tap networking driver,
> > and I seem to be coming up short.  I have found that OpenSSH can use
> > it to create VPN connections across networks, which is actually pretty
> > cool, but I am trying to find information on actually configuring and
> > programming with the tun/tap device to try to understand it.  Does
> > anybody know where that information is to be found?
> 
> Google is your friend:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+Universal+TUN%2FTAP+device+driver
> 


Sort of.  I am only finding rather generic information on it.  Perhaps I
will have to learn enough C to understand the writings of others...

    -- Mike

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