Another idea for tinc on windows

stnick stnick at aquinascafe.org
Wed Apr 9 23:28:52 CEST 2003


Guus Sliepen wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:01:29PM +0200, I.R. van Dongen wrote:
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>>On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:13:50 +0200, guus at sliepen.eu.org wrote:
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>>>I've looked into this myself but the PPP protocol, even without
>>>authentication or exotic options, is not simple. Better wait for someone
>>>with knowledge of Windows device drivers to implement the virtual
>>>network device!
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>>according to some sources, it can't be hard to write a driver for a
>>virtual network device. I'm ordering a DDK (Driver Development Kit)
>>atm, and I'll look if it can me done by me, or if I need some help
>>from the tinc developers.  Unfortunatly, the person who told me that
>>it was kinda easy can't disclose the source of the code he is working
>>on, but I hope he can assist me a bit.
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>I just heard that the CIPE-win32 driver, which is written for NT 4.0,
>also works under XP, despite what the CIPE website claims. It
>implements something equivalent to an ethertap device.
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This stuff is over my head, but I ran across the "Zebedee" today while 
researching ways to encrypt VNC and thought it might be of interest to 
this conversation.

http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/

    -Patrick



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