[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] lwIP and TUN/TAP on Linux 2.4

[Joe MacDonald]

Hi Shaun

I, among others, have been working on and off on getting this working in
2.4.x kernels.  I've been running very short of free time lately with my
new job, but I have a semi-working implmentation I'll be testing in the
next few days.  If it works, I'll be sending a patch to Adam for
inclusion in the tree.

If you're thinking about tackling it yourself, I'll give you a bit of
advice I wish I'd had when I started this:  devfs will bite you on the
rear at every possible opportunity when you try using /dev/net/tun
(actually /dev/net/tun is normally a broken symlink with devfs, maybe
with vanilla 2.4 as well, look at /dev/misc/net/tun instead).
Otherwise, I'll let everyone know when I have something solid.

Oh, and I'll have the HTML generated for 0.5 soon, don't worry.

-Joe.

In message: [lwip] lwIP and TUN/TAP on Linux 2.4 (<address@hidden>)
on 13/12/2001 (Thu 10:53) Shaun Jackman wrote:

> Has anyone had any luck running the sim* targets on Linux kernel 2.4.x? It 
> seems the tunnel interface has changed significantly between 2.2 and 2.4. For 
> one thing it used to be /dev/{tap,tun}[0-3] and now exists at /dev/net/tun.
> 
> Is there any way to make this go? I'm quite interested in lwIP but would like 
> to see it running on a synthetic target before I start looking at embedded 
> hardware.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaun
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Joe MacDonald
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