From: Michael Renzmann <mrenzmann@web.de>
To: Derek Smalls <dsmalls321@yahoo.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridging between user processes
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:34:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D11F57.9070504@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040616221738.29758.qmail@web90108.mail.scd.yahoo.com>
Hi.
Derek Smalls wrote:
>>I have not played with tun/tap myself, but the
>>kernel documentation in
>>Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt seems to
>>indicate that you need a program to listen on two
>>opened /dev/net/tun devices and copy the frames
>>from one to the other.
> Thanks! I was afraid this was the reason ... :(
>
> I actually tried writing an application that would
> open /dev/tap4 as a file and do a select() on it.
The standalone tun-package [1] contains two example applications that
act as simple bridges, one using SIGIO, one using select(). I guess it
could be helpful for you to take a look at these examples.
[1] http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun/tun-1.1.tar.gz
Bye, Mike
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2004-06-16 22:17 ` [Bridge] Bridging between user processes Derek Smalls
2004-06-17 4:34 ` Michael Renzmann [this message]
2004-06-17 22:29 ` [Bridge] Bridging between user processes - TAP question Derek Smalls
2004-06-17 22:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
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2004-06-16 22:12 ` [Bridge] Bridging between user processes Derek Smalls
2004-06-16 4:04 Derek Smalls
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