Re: [Openvpn-users] OS X gui

[Daniel Lehmann <ov_users@xxxxxx>]

Scott Larson schrieb:
>      Does anyone know the status of this project?  We were running it 
> with a lot of success, but now that everyone has the itch for 10.4 the 
> site hosting the app has disappeared, leaving me in the bind I was 
> trying to avoid by going with OpenVPN to begin with.

Hi Scott,

as I said it before, Mattias Nissler is working on a tun/tap driver for 
Tiger (10.4).
But there are problems with the changes in the kernel api so the 
developement will take some more days [1].
Mattias is doing a great work, but he isn't directly attached to the 
project. Because of that, I would also appreciate it, if James could 
maintain the mac tun/tap kernel extension.

Angelo Laub, developer of the mac gui has moved his website to another 
root-server but has forgotten to kk the domain. Now he is in scottland 
and can't fix that.
ASAP he is back we will provide a mirror. Furthermore, Waldemar Brodkorb 
and I want to encourage the local mac-hacker community to support Angelo 
in his development. Therefore we will give another lecture at the 
mac-hackers (http://machackers.netzladen.org/) in Bonn, Germany. 
Interested people are free to join the meeting.

greetings
leh

[1] from http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/
> Tiger version
> Currently there is (to my knowledge) no working tun/tap package for Tiger. I have received many mails asking wether I will make one. I will try to port tun/tap next week (this sentence intentionally always points to a future date ;-)). The problem is that Apple changed a lot of the kernel networking API, so I will have to rewrite some code. But hey, that's my problem because I used an unstable/unsupported API. Unfortunately there was no other before Tiger...
> Tiger version status update (Thu, May 12):
>
> I already spent quite some time for the Tiger port. I thought I could keep the versions for Panther and Tiger in the same source tree. But as it turns out, those Apple guys really changed the kernel code everywhere. Many things are hidden now, and we got KPIs (Kernel Programming Interfaces). Those are supposed to be stable public APIs, wrapping many things in the kernel (even mbufs, which I would consider quite stable, look at the BSDs!). I will now separate the Tiger and Panther versions. And I will have to do more new code than I thought. So please have some more patience. Next week, again.


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