Dynamips and Tap Devices, To and From the same machine

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I am setting up a dynamips/dynagen lab and am wondering if there is any way to get traffic to route out one tap devices, go into the lab, and come back to a tap device on the same machine. I have tried host specific routes as well as removing the route created when I give the tun device an ip via ifconfig. With both of these, traffic always preferes the attached devices and won't go through my lab.

Any way to make this work without a separate machine or vm?

@Kyle , can't you just setup a physical router in your lab, and just 'route' to and from it? — The Unix Janitor, Apr 13 '10 at 12:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 13 '10 at 15:03

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I don't think it's trivially doable, as the host machine will do a lookup in its own routing table and see that the IP you're wanting to reach is easiest reached by just passing the traffic internally.

If you're using linux, it is possible to create source routes using ip this page has an example taht you should be able to work from.

answered Apr 13 '10 at 15:03

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Raw sockets seem to work for my needs because I can craft the packets. Didn't try the source routing yet. – Kyle Brandt Apr 13 '10 at 17:18

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 13 '10 at 17:17

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Apparently raw sockets bind to an interface and can gleefully bypass the routing tables. Scapy is capable of this, so for example:

>>> sendp(IP(dst="192.168.8.2"), iface="tap0", loop=1)

Accomplishes my goal.

answered Apr 13 '10 at 17:17

Kyle Brandt

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Dynamips and Tap Devices, To and From the same machine

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