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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

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-17  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <C060DFCD9697A842B3189B458524FDC205D2D3@AIMAIL1.ai.aiinet.com>
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
     [not found] <40D08A26.1040907@tuxdriver.com>
2004-06-16 22:12 ` [Bridge] Bridging between user processes Derek Smalls
2004-06-16  4:04 Derek Smalls

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