From: Brad Smith <b...@comstyle.com> The following patch simplifies the *BSD tap/tun code and makes use of numbered tap/tun interfaces on all *BSD OS's. NetBSD has a patch in their pkgsrc tree to make use of this feature and DragonFly also supports this as well.
Signed-off-by: Brad Smith <b...@comstyle.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> --- net/tap-bsd.c | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/tap-bsd.c b/net/tap-bsd.c index f61d580..90f8a02 100644 --- a/net/tap-bsd.c +++ b/net/tap-bsd.c @@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_size, int *vnet_hdr, struct stat s; #endif -#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__FreeBSD_kernel__) || \ - defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__) /* if no ifname is given, always start the search from tap0/tun0. */ int i; char dname[100]; @@ -76,15 +74,6 @@ int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_size, int *vnet_hdr, dname, strerror(errno)); return -1; } -#else - TFR(fd = open("/dev/tap", O_RDWR)); - if (fd < 0) { - fprintf(stderr, - "warning: could not open /dev/tap: no virtual network emulation: %s\n", - strerror(errno)); - return -1; - } -#endif #ifdef TAPGIFNAME if (ioctl(fd, TAPGIFNAME, (void *)&ifr) < 0) { -- 1.8.3.1