Socat upstream tells me that they don't have resource/time
to add tun/tap support on OpenBSD.

No matter anyway.
Thanks again


Il giorno lun 13 nov 2023 alle ore 10:19 Luca Di Gregorio <luc...@gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> I will do it.
> Anyway, a few months ago I noticed a similar issue on vlc.
> Prior 7.4, OpenBSD port didn't have the telnet interface available.
> Some gentlemen here in ports@openbsd.org added it and now it's available
> in 7.4.
> That is why I submitted the question related to socat and TUN.
> Thanks
>
> Il giorno dom 12 nov 2023 alle ore 11:54 Theo de Raadt <
> dera...@openbsd.org> ha scritto:
>
>> you would need to talk to socat upstream, because in general the ports
>> team do not add features
>>
>> Luca Di Gregorio <luc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I would like to set a point to point interface encapsulating packets via
>> > UDP.
>> >
>> > It would be like a point to point wireguard but:
>> >  - without authentication (I can set permissions in PF on source ip)
>> >  - without encryption (content is already encrypted by source
>> application)
>> >
>> > I can't use GIF or GRE interfaces because I'm behind NAT with only
>> TCP/UDP
>> > capabilities.
>> >
>> > With linux it's possible with fou-gue interfaces, but I see that in
>> OpenBSD
>> > fou is not implemented.
>> >
>> > So, I installed socat with pkg_add and tried to do like this:
>> > http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat-tun.html
>> >
>> > Anyway, I see this:
>> > # socat UDP:1.2.3.4:11443 TUN:192.168.255.2/24,up
>> > 2023/11/11 14:11:27 socat[4504] E unknown device/address "TUN"
>> >
>> > Do you think it's possible to add TUN/TAP support in socat?
>>
>

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