Re: Net.Manager

[Vincent Bernardoff <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/03/2013 16:18, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> However, the interface that involves opening an fd (through whatever means, be 
> it tuntap or bpf) and passing it through to the Mirage application via sendfd 
> seems to be the most robust solution in terms of interface design.  We could 
> even write a manual MacOS bridge to send traffic back-and-forth from an 
> interface if we're really stuck later.
>
> -anil
Yeah.

I just fixed the ocaml-fd-send-recv library on MacOSX (minor changes), 
pull request in djs55's branch.
Next step: make ocaml-tuntap compile on MacOSX. i.e. fixing obuild for 
MacOSX. I'll be working on that, I think improving obuild is crucial for 
many of Citrix/Mirari/Mirage work anyway.
Once that it is done, I'll push my changes to mirage-net such that there 
is no _creation_ of tuntap interface there, just listening to a socket 
and getting a tap passed as a fd by mirari.
Cheers,

Vincent