TAP(4) - Device Drivers Manual
TAP(4) - Device Drivers Manual # TAP(4) - Device Drivers Manual NAME # tap - Ethernet tunnel pseudo-device SYNOPSIS # pseudo-device tun #include <sys/types.h> #include <net/if_tun.h> DESCRIPTION # The tap driver provides an Ethernet interface pseudo-device. Packets sent to this interface can be read by a userland process and processed as desired. Packets written by the userland process are injected back into the kernel networking subsystem. A tap interface can be created at runtime using the ifconfig tap‌N create command or by opening the character special device /dev/tapN. ...