Hi,
yesterday we found a new tun/tap kernel extension for Mac OS X
here:
http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/
After some short testing and a small patch to OpenVPN
the Mac OS X client seems to work correctly via the
TAP device.
It would be nice if this patch and eventually
the driver could be integrated into openvpn like the
win32 driver.
If someone is interested we also would provide a binary
package, which installs the tap/tun driver and OpenVPN on
Mac OS X.
We have a project in our university, where we would like to
use OpenVPN to secure our Wireless LAN.
Mattias Nissler: Thanks for providing this driver, there
was a very short timeslice, where I was thinkning to do a tap
kernel extension on my own ... but luckily Daniel Lehmann has some
greater ability to use google correctly ;)
Thanks in advance
Waldemar
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Index: INSTALL
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/openvpn/openvpn/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.37.2.2
diff -d -u -r1.37.2.2 INSTALL
--- INSTALL 24 Jun 2004 03:48:27 -0000 1.37.2.2
+++ INSTALL 11 Sep 2004 14:25:41 -0000
@@ -232,6 +232,9 @@
Obtain Christoph Pfisterer's TUN driver at
http://chrisp.de/en/projects/tunnel.html
+ or
+ Mattias Nissler's TUN/TAP driver at
+ http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/
* Solaris9 Sparc/64
Index: tun.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/openvpn/openvpn/tun.c,v
retrieving revision 1.37.2.21
diff -d -u -r1.37.2.21 tun.c
--- tun.c 19 Aug 2004 03:28:11 -0000 1.37.2.21
+++ tun.c 11 Sep 2004 14:25:46 -0000
@@ -682,7 +682,14 @@
tun_mtu
);
else
- no_tap_ifconfig ();
+ openvpn_snprintf (command_line, sizeof (command_line),
+ IFCONFIG_PATH " %s %s netmask %s mtu %d up",
+ actual,
+ ifconfig_local,
+ ifconfig_remote_netmask,
+ tun_mtu
+ );
+
msg (M_INFO, "%s", command_line);
system_check (command_line, "Mac OS X ifconfig failed", true);
tt->did_ifconfig = true;
