VPN via tun interfaces on Mac OS
Jan Pechanec
jan.pechanec at oracle.com
Thu Oct 2 03:43:01 EST 2014
hi, when I tried to setup VPN over OpenSSH on my Mac laptop I
found out that it does not natively support tun interfaces. There is an
existing project adding such support in a kernel module but it was not
updated since 2011 so I haven't even tried that.
I understand that Mac OS supports utun (user tunnel) interface
which is automatically created (without creating the device under /dev)
on behalf of the user when one connects to a special PF_SYSTEM socket.
I verified that and have a piece of code that does it. However, it
needs more privileges than an unprivileged user so more investigation is
needed before I can try to modify the client code.
the reason I'm writing this is that I'm wondering whether anyone
already tried that so that I don't attempt implementing the same thing.
I cannot find anyone mentioning it in this list though.
thanks, Jan.
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Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec at oracle.com>
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