Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: tun/tap OS X for tunneling

[Eric Blossom]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:52:14AM -0800, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Ed Criscuolo
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > There also seems to be a fundamental difference between the
> > way the TUN/TAP driver works on the two OS's.
> 
> Ah, then it's not so easy.  It would be very useful to GNU Radio to
> have a cross-platform implementation of this functionality, written in
> C++, that abstracts the differences and presents a simple
> write/callback API.  I've written a TAP/TUN mblock that has the right
> C++ guts that could be extracted and reused, but it would still have
> the same problem on OS X.
> 
> -Johnathan

IIRC there was a discussion about an OS neutral wrapper for tap/tun
several months back.   I don't remember any solution being found,
proposed or built.

Eric