[Planetlab-users] TCP raw Sockets in planet lab (AGAIN)

Luis Carlos Erpen de Bona bona at c3sl.ufpr.br
Thu Nov 17 12:36:50 EST 2005


> As Christoph mentioned, you cannot send packets with a non-local source 
> IP address, including RFC1918 addresses such as 10.0.0.0/8. Even if you 
:(

> Are you trying to build an overlay network? If so, the new TUN/TAP 
> feature of VNET, which will rollout to production nodes very shortly, 
> may help:
Yes, use TUN/TAP was the first idea, but how it wasn't 
available I was trying to find a alternativa approach.

> In short, very soon, every PlanetLab node will have a virtual TUN/TAP 
Do you have any idea about how much time it will take to be
available? 

Thanks a lot 

Bona



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