Archive for December 2007

Ruby TUN/TAP interface

December 4, 2007

The universal TUN/TAP drivers have been shipping with the Linux kernel for a while now. vtun builds on this to set up point-to-point tunnels that essentially encapsulate Ethernet frames over a TCP connection. Here’s the Ruby code to setup a tap interface so we can start receiving raw Ethernet frames that are being written to this interface.

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Categories: Ruby, Tools
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