Questions tagged [tap]
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Windows: Send all network traffic from script/app through specific TAP adapter
I have created a script in Node.js to remotely manage a server. To work the script needs to be connected to a VPN. The VPN it needs to connect to is different from the one I want Windows to use. Both VPNs use OpenVPN. I have successfully created two…
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OpenVPN TAP vs TUN in parallel
I have a few questions about our existing OpenVPN server setup and a requirement that we have to expand our access.
Our current setup is as follows:
1 OpenVPN server (in TAP mode)
Multiple VM servers with host machine physically connected to the…

Adam Blalock
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Bonding over OpenVPN, for fault tolerance
I have two OpenVPN server, and two machines connecting to them.
Server 1 openvpn address: 10.158.1.1
Server 2 openvpn address: 10.158.2.1
Machine 1 has address 10.158.1.11 on server 1, 10.158.2.11 on server2.
Machine 2 has address 10.158.1.12 on…

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Issues setting up TINC on Mac OSX 10.12.2
I have TINC setup on a few linux boxes and they are working great.
linux001 (static ip vps - 10.0.0.1)
macosx002 (connects to linux001 - 10.0.0.2)
linux050 (connects to linux001 - 10.0.0.50)
I also have a Mac with OSX 10.12.2 that seems to be…

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Tap interface is not receiving packets
I'm configuring a tap interface and trying to send and receive packets through it, i configure it like this:
ip tuntap add name tap0 mode tap multi_queue
ip link set tap0 up
i'm using scapy to send traffic to the interface, the command is :
p =…

Kareem Khaleel
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icmp ping reply not received by ping process, seen by tcpdump/wireshark
I'm having an issue with getting the actual ping process to receive the reply even though I can clearly see the response in the tcpdump output.
I'm running on:
Mac OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan
Bridge interface with tap interface as a member
qemu is…

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Softether vpn ufw firewall config - is it correct?
I've correctly installed and configured Softether on my Ubuntu 14 x64 VPS in local bridge mode with a virtual TAP interface.
What I have now is a fully functioning L2TP/IPSEC server with two network interfaces which I'd like to further secure using…

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Openvpn limit bandwidth
I would like to ask you a question concerning openvpn and the possibility to increase the bandwidth in case I want to transfer files.
I have an openvpn server via which I connect to my data center. So, in some way, I want to have the ability to…

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OpenVSwitch between namespaces
I'm trying to configure a bridge between two TAP interfaces each created inside their own network namespace, on Linux.
I'm using OpenVSwitch as software bridge.
These are the steps that I believe should work:
ip netns add test_ns1
ip netns exec…

Daniele Venzano
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How to connect a virtual NIC in one QEMU-KVM instance to a virtual NIC in another QEMU-KVM instance without a bridge
Is there a way to connect a Virtual NIC one QEMU-KVM instance to a Virtual NIC on another QEMU-KVM instance. I want to be able to do this efficiently and it may be possible that the 2 instances could be on local or remote machines.
I understand the…

Sarvi Shanmugham
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IP Packet Capture/Manipulation via TUN/TAP
I'm trying to capture and manipulate incoming IP packets (via eth0 interface) by using a TUN device (since I'm only concerned with IP layer). The first step I think is 1:1 packet forwarding from eth0 to tun0, but I can't get this to work via…

Matt
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openvpn without tap module? replacement?
I am trying to instal OpenVPN on a special linux distribution that has no tap kernel module, and all howtos available are outdated. I was wondering if there is a way to run OpenVPN without this kernel module.
At the moment I can't install OpenVPN…

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qemu commandline can't see /dev/net/tun
i am newbie with qemu and libvirt. I hit the issue with virsh and qemu, especially with tun interface setup.
Once i run
qemu-system-x86_64 \
-nographic -enable-kvm \
-cpu host -m 2048 \
-serial mon:stdio \
-netdev…

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Is there a tool I can use to test out multiple vpn tunnels in one machine?
I use wget -q -O https://checkmyip.com/csv to determine if I am connected to a VPN but I want to verify multiple VPN tunnels on the same machine. Is there a tool that can allow me to send a command that will allow me to load a csv/json file from…

LeanMan
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OpenVPN - client connected to server, but cannot ping server or server's LAN
I am trying to ping the network of the Ubuntu server from Windows 7 (client). Both Ubuntu and Windows are clients on another OpenVPN server with the option client-to-client. The client can connect to the server (gets an IP address of 10.0.0.50),…

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