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…