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

[Michael Dickens]

On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> Not sure about the external dependency on the OS X kernel extension,
> however--perhaps some Mac users could comment on whether that creates
> an issue or not.


IMHO it would be unwise for any current GR component to be dependent  
on "tuntaposx", since it's a non-standard addition to the OS (a kernel  
extension, not just a library with headers and related files).

If this were made into its own component (e.g., "gr-tuntap"), then I'd  
be all for it.  On Darwin, it would require tuntaposx to be installed,  
which shouldn't be difficult to check for.  On other platforms,  
checking might be easier, but all of this would be done during  
configure via the config/*.m4 scripts anyway.

My US$.01 (during current economic crisis). - MLD