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tun

Description

A library to create Linux TUN/TAP interfaces

Current status

The library currently allows the opening of a TUN/TAP interface in either TUN or TAP mode and keeps track of the interface name and its file descriptor. It provides two utility functions tun-up! and tun-mac which bring the interface up and return the interface MAC address respectively.

Note: the library assumes the presence of the "/dev/net/tun" device file. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt.

Author

Omar Shorbaji

Requirements

defstruct lolevel socket

API

make-tun #!optional (mode 'tun) (pi #f)procedure

returns a tun/tap interface. The mode argument can be 'tun for a tunnel interface or 'tap for a tap interface. When the argument pi is #t we do not send the IFF_NO_PI flag and the interface includes packet information (four bytes) when reading every packet or frame

tun-fd tunprocedure

returns the file descriptor associated with the tunnel interface. Writing to this file descriptor sends data out of the interface. Note that written data must be well-formed packet (for tun) or ethernet frame (for tap).

tun-nameprocedure

returns the name of the TUN/TAP interface. Available after running make-tun

tun-mac tunprocedure

returns the MAC address associated with a TUN or TAP interface as a list of 6 integers

Examples

(define tap (make-tun 'tap)) ; creates a TUN/TAP interface in tap mode

(tun-up! tun)                ; brings interface up

(print "MAC address: " (tun-mac tap))

(use posix ethernet)

(let* ((pr (file-read fd size))
       (buf (car pr))
       (n (cadr pr)))
  (with-input-from-string (string-take buf n)
     (read-ethernet-frame))) ; reads an ethernet frame from TAP interface

Repository

https://github.com/shorbaji/chicken-tun

License

;; Copyright (c) 2016, Omar Shorbaji
;; All rights reserved.
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Version History

0.1 alpha release

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