Bruce M. Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14 Mar 2007 13:09:
> Please try the attached patch, which puts this behaviour under a sysctl.
It works well as expected. Many thanks!
I created a PR
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=110383
with the hope the patch will be commited.
Regards,
Bruce,
many thanks for your fast response.
Bruce M. Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14 Mar 2007 13:09:
> The conditional in the second patch is a no-op as the open will be
> forbidden if the user did not have privilege to open the tap. Bringing
No. A process running with root rights can al
Hi,
Frank Behrens wrote:
If we have no possibility to mark the interface as UP for the non-root process the
net.link.tap.user_open=1 is useless, because we can not transmit any packets. With the
patch the interface goes UP only, when the administrator allowed non-root user access.
The co
Bruce M. Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 9 Mar 2007 12:30:
> However, we also support the creation of tap/tun instances by
> non-super-users, so there is motivation for the change. Configuring a
> tap interface to up by a non-superuser should only be permitted if the
> interface itself was
Bruce, thanks for your answer!
Bruce M. Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 9 Mar 2007 12:30:
> Frank Behrens wrote:
> > How does tun(4) handle this? tun(4) is also set to down, when closed. It is
> > not set to up, when
> > ist is opened, but when an address is assigned by the user process. Th
Frank Behrens wrote:
How does tun(4) handle this? tun(4) is also set to down, when closed. It is not set to up, when
ist is opened, but when an address is assigned by the user process. This is fine, because it
needs always an ip address. tap(4) as layer 2 tunnel device does not need an ip addres
I want to diskuss the tap(4) behaviour before I create a PR:
The tap(4) interface does not go automatically in UP state (IFF_UP) when opened
by a
process. Therefore an additional command "ifconfig tapx up" is necessary, which
can
execute root only. On the other site the interface goes down aut
