[Planetlab-users] Re: tuntap on 4.2

[Sapan Bhatia]

Great! Thanks for responding quickly to our call for testing. Could
the others who had asked for tuntap (cc'd) also verify that it's
satisfactory, so that we can package it and roll it out? -- Sapan

On 7/3/08, Andreas Haeberlen <ahae at mpi-sws.mpg.de> wrote:
> Hello Sapan,
>
>  thank you for the quick response. I tested our software on the node
>  you set up for us, and it looks like everything is working fine.
>  The only unusual thing I saw was that all outgoing packets are counted
>  as dropped by the kernel:
>
>   tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:FF:0A:28:6C:01
>             inet addr:10.40.108.1  P-t-P:10.40.108.1  Bcast:10.255.255.255
> Mask:255.0.0.0
>             UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1468  Metric:1
>             RX packets:15108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>             TX packets:13935 errors:0 dropped:13935 overruns:0 carrier:0
>             collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>             RX bytes:20480346 (19.5 MiB)  TX bytes:14285330 (13.6 MiB)
>
>  However, since the packets seem to be delivered to the application anyway,
>  this is more of a cosmetic problem.
>
>  Thank you,
>
>         - Andreas
>
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've installed a first attempt at resurecting tuntap on
> > planetlab-7.cs.princeton.edu. Please test the functionality on this
> > node at your convenience. If you run into problems (quite likely),
> > then it would help if you could join us on the PlanetLab IRC channel
> > at irc.freenode.net#planetlab so that we can iterate over it and get
> > it working as it should.
> >
> > Once we are satisfied that the feature is running fine on this alpha
> > node, we can deploy it throughout PlanetLab.
> >
> > Sapan
> >
>
>