Rhialto <rhia...@falu.nl> wrote: >On Fri 25 Dec 2015 at 16:02:57 +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> Exactly, it depends if it makes sense to have a magic minor device like >> that... Does it? > >Well, it seems that Linux has it. In fact, it has a single file for both >tap en tun (/dev/net/tun) and an ioctl to change it between tun and >tap. > >I don't propose to go that far (I think needing to use an ioctl to >choose mode is inconvenient), but having the same facilities for tun and >tap would be nicely symmetrical. > >(I'm looking at this because I'm reworking the networking part of the >klh10 PDP-10 emulator, at https://github.com/Rhialto/klh10/tree/libpcap, >and the more symmetrical I can make stuff the happier it makes me. Tun >is used for the KS10 with ITS, to make its IMP communicate with the >world.)
Why not use tap(4) ? I have used it in emulators for machines of the same vintage and it works well. Robert Swindells
