Hello All!
I've released Ethernet TAP driver v0.2 for FreeBSD
It provides a virtual Ethernet interface to the system. It also
provides packet reception and
transmission for user-space programs. It can be viewed as a simple
Ethernet device, which
instead of receiving packets from a physical medium, receives them
from a user-space
program and instead of sending packets via physical media, writes
them to the user-space
program.
Changes since v 0.1
- FreeBSD kernel Ethernet bridging (by Luigi Rizzo) support added.
This feature seems to be working, but it needs more testing.
I've tested it with VTUN (http://vtun.netpedia.net). I had
two
Linux boxes connected with the same FreeBSD box with
VTUN. The FreeBSD box was an Ethernet bridge. So all
three boxes were on the same virtual Ethernet network.
Thanks to Maxim Krasnyansky.
DUMMYNET should be working also, but I did not test it.
- Removig address from tapX interface when tapX device is closed
It has been added in v 0.1a, but I did not announce it here
The driver can be found at
http://vtun.netpedia.net/tun/tap-0.2-freebsd.tar.gz
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Folks, what do you think about smart user-space Ethernet bridge?
Anyone needs it?
Thanks,
eMax
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