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102A newer (and reportedly much more stable) driver that also supports TAP 102A newer (and reportedly much more stable) driver that also supports TAP
103operations is available here: 103operations is available here:
104 104
105 http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/ 105 http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/
106 106
107But GVPE has not been used with it, and has not been ported to it's TAP 107But GVPE has not been ported to it's TAP interface. Patches are welcome.
108interface. Patches are welcome. 108
109The driver must be loaded before use:
110
111 kmodload tunnel
109 112
110=head2 tincd/solaris 113=head2 tincd/solaris
111 114
112TUN-device; already part of the kernel. see C<tincd/netbsd> for more 115TUN-device; already part of the kernel, or available here:
116
117 http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun/
118
119Some precompiled tun drivers might be available here:
120
121 http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/fragroute/
122
123See C<tincd/netbsd> for more information.
124
113information. Completely untested so far. 125Completely unstested so far.
114 126
115=head2 tincd/mingw 127=head2 tincd/mingw
116 128
117TAP-device; see C<native/cygwin> for more information. Completey untested so far. 129TAP-device; see C<native/cygwin> for more information.
130
131Completely untested so far.
132
133=head2 tincd/raw_socket
134
135TAP-device; purpose unknown and untested, probably binds itself on an
136existing ethernet device (given by C<ifname>), which should probably not
137be configured in any way, except for setting it I<up>.
138
139=head2 tincd/uml_socket
140
141TAP-device; purpose unknown and untested, probably creates a unix datagram
142socket (path given by C<ifname>) and reads and writes raw packets, so
143might be useful in other than UML contexts.
118 144
119=head2 tincd/cygwin 145=head2 tincd/cygwin
120 146
121Known to be broken. 147Known to be broken, use C<native/cygwin> instead.
122
123 148
124=head1 SEE ALSO 149=head1 SEE ALSO
125 150
126gvpe(5). 151gvpe(5).
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