> Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Unless there are objections in the next day or two, I'm going to
> > deprecate the TUNSLMODE ioctl favour of TUNSIFHEAD. Where TUNSLMODE
> > prepended a sockaddr to each packet, TUNSIFHEAD will instead prepend a
> > 4-byte network-byte-order address family.
>
> Don't take it out quite yet. I asked Alfred to implement TUNSLMODE for
> a reason; I was working on some VPN software at the time. There are
> cases where you want a full sockaddr, not just the address family. The
> next-hop address is not necessarily the same as the destination
> address, if the interface is in broadcast mode (as opposed to ptp).
[half-understanding-grumble]
This sounds like a bit of a hack :-( I was seconds away from nuking
TUNSLMODE ;oD [put that axe away !]
[/half-understanding-grumble]
I'll leave the support there, but TUNSIFHEAD will disable TUNSLMODE
and vice versa.
> DES
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