Support for macOS feth devices

Charles Celerier chcl at google.com
Thu Jul 16 05:48:11 AEST 2020


Unfortunately,
https://www.zerotier.com/how-zerotier-eliminated-kernel-extensions-on-macos/ is
the best blog post I have seen so far on this topic. There is also still
the chance, as mentioned in that post, that Apple updates NetworkDriverKit
to provide support for creating tap-like devices from userspace. I'm not
necessarily holding my breath though.

Thorsten, supposing such an API were developed as you suggested, what is
the likelihood use of such an API could be pushed into sys_tun_open and its
associated functions? I am weighing the risk of creating such a general API
only to see that it will be difficult to have its use integrated into ssh.

Charles

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:52 AM Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Peter Stuge wrote:
>
> > is GPL-licensed, so a derivative of that can't be integrated into
> OpenSSH.
>
> A derivative of it, that exposes a general API to do tap-device-like
> things using stdio and command line options, could be called over its
> general API from OpenSSH though. Even be developed separately (this
> would, in fact, even help).
>
> bye,
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