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Sorry, Frank - Pavel muller is correct.<br>
I struggled for 2 weeks and you and another one of your<br>
colleagues even sent me nasty email.<br>
The document fails to mention that if the tun/tap bridged<br>
"host interface" is used, you will need to add firewall rules<br>
to your host to FORWARD tap packets to your outbound <br>
network interface, and to MASQUERADE the tap IP<br>
address as the outbount IP address. This topic is NOT<br>
discussed well at all - and without it, bridged networking<br>
documention is crippled as far as most people (who are<br>
NOT networking engineers) are concerned.<br>
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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:31:43 +0100
From: Frank Mehnert <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frank@innotek.de"><frank@innotek.de></a>
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] TUN and TAP Documentation
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On Sunday 09 March 2008, Pavel Muller wrote:
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<pre wrap="">However these sources don?t describe TUN/TAP interface in detail. This
ins?t possible, that don?t exit detailed manual:(
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These manual in summary are completely sufficient. What do you want to
know except for information found in these descriptions? They describe
how to open a tun/tap device and how to receive/send packets. Nothing
else is needed. Note further that creating such complex manuals like
the Intel manual you referred is often not possible since many Linux
programmers work in their spare time only -- in contrast to the authors
of the Intel manuals. On the other side, there is a huge amount of
example code for these open-source interfaces.
Kind regards,
Frank
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