Simple program use /dev/tap

snort Snort snort_sam at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 29 13:01:41 GMT 2005



--- Tobias Roth <roth at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:03:43AM -0700, snort
> Snort wrote:
> > 
> > As I want to learn how to use /dev/tap in freebsd,
> I m
> > looking for a simple application that written for
> > /dev/tap. OpenVPN is a bit too complicated for a
> > newbie to get start. Can anyone tell me a link or
> > reference for some of these examples?
> 
> There are examples that come with the distribution
> itself:
> 
> http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun/tun-1.1.tar.gz
> 
Is this only for tun device? 
How much difference between tun and tap in terms of
programming when using the device?

> (and this question would be better suited for
> freebsd-questions,
> if for any FreBSD=specific list at all)
> 
Sorry, I currently don't have access to the
frebsd.misc newsgroup, so I need to post the question
here.

Thanks
Sam

> cheers, t.
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