Intro As a packet slinger by trade, a network admin, and also a bit of a programmer, I lately embarked on a quest for better throughput – to find a way to get more packets to pass through a rather small footprint low-cost device running a VPN tunnel. I will review my findings here over the…
Intro In the last post, I mentioned the /proc system but never got much further. We’ll delve a little deeper in this post. So what is /proc anyway? According to wikipedia – “The proc file is a special file system … that acts as an interface to internal data structures in the kernel. It can be used to obtain…
Intro A part of the project I’ve been working on requires the use of a virtual network device. Traditionally, this would be a tun/tap device. The user-space program would register a new tunnel device connected to /dev/net/tun, which presents the user with a tun0 device to which you can assign an IP address etc. IP…
Intro There are many ways to implement the UDP handling. Since I’m primarily interested in using UDP to tunnel traffic from a client to a server, both of which are known and controlled by me, I’m going to implement a udp_tunnel. This is different to say, how a DNS server would work, listening on a…
Intro Key to transporting anything over the internet these days, is encryption. For a tunnel, this involved encrypting the whole packet that would be your payload. We don’t want anyone along the path to be able to intercept packets and see what the unencapsulated traffic would look like. Especially in the case of LAN to…
