RE: Wireless adapter for new computer re TUNTAP

"'\'Fish\' \(David B. Trout\)' [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general
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Ivan Warren wrote:

<snip; OpenVPN tun/tap driver...>

[...]
> No winpcap, no capture, no injection... it's a programmatic
> driver that creates a virtual ethernet L2/IP L3 layer that
> can be used to connect to the OS IP stack or bridged. How
> it's used is slightly different from the linux version
> (especially different naming) but you basically send and
> receive frames through it.
[...]
> If you do that, windows, linux and mac (and whatnot) become
> pretty much unified.

You're right.  I was misunderstanding.  And yes, it would be nice to have a more precisely identical Windows/Linux/Other tun/tap programmatic interface in Hercules (rather than all the special CTCI-WIN exceptions-to-the-rule code that we have now).


> I'm not saying it's a meanial task, I'm saying it's an
> avenue that needs to be investigated.

Agreed.  I might have to actually do that someday.

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"Fish" (David B. Trout)
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