RE: Wireless adapter for new computer re TUNTAP
| 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. -- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development Laboratories http://www.softdevlabs.com mail: [email protected]