Re: [Openvpn-devel] Native OS X tunnels

2013-06-18 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:51:53AM -0700, Peter Sagerson wrote: > Just a recommendation, but I wouldn't necessarily consider the two > proposals alternatives. I agree - the basic functionality is the same, just some of the surrounding details are different. As I said, I need to closely loo

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Native OS X tunnels

2013-06-17 Thread Peter Sagerson
Just a recommendation, but I wouldn't necessarily consider the two proposals alternatives. The only interesting thing going on here is an implementation of open_tun that creates utun devices. The rest is just wiring. Even open_tun isn't really subtle or complex, merely a bit arcane. I suspect th

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Native OS X tunnels

2013-06-17 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:33:54AM -0400, Jonathan K. Bullard wrote: > I have a slight preference forArne's patch, which doesn't introduce yet > another new OpenVPN option. Without having compared the code itself, I second that argument. No more super-special-case options (which depend on #i

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Native OS X tunnels

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan K. Bullard
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Arne Schwabe wrote: > > I think using utun as default at least for -master and 2.4rc candidates is > a good way to get the feature tested. I hope there is time in the next > OpenVPN developer IRC meeting to decide if my or your patch should be > included. I won'

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Native OS X tunnels

2013-06-16 Thread Peter Sagerson
Defaulting to it in unreleased builds also sounds like a fine idea. I don't know how large your pre-release testing population is. The speed and directness of a utun migration is really a judgement call. Naturally I defer to those who are more involved in the project; it sounds like things are w

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Native OS X tunnels

2013-06-16 Thread Arne Schwabe
Am 16.06.13 01:41, schrieb Peter Sagerson: Nice, glad to see I'm not the only one working on this. Apple has been pretty clear that they're aware of the kext conflicts but don't have much interest in addressing the situation. If we can get native tunnel support in one way or another, we can st

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Native OS X tunnels

2013-06-15 Thread Peter Sagerson
Nice, glad to see I'm not the only one working on this. Apple has been pretty clear that they're aware of the kext conflicts but don't have much interest in addressing the situation. If we can get native tunnel support in one way or another, we can stop the insanity. I toyed with the idea of va

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Native OS X tunnels

2013-06-15 Thread Arne Schwabe
Am 15.06.13 23:13, schrieb Peter Sagerson: [tun on OS X] I have not looked at your patch yet but there is also a utun from patch from me, waiting for review: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7464 Arne smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Kryptografische Unterschrift