From 3eb4834489426bd796da90299b2f8174b744dddd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Darren Tucker Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:05:12 +1000 Subject: - (dtucker) [README.platform configure.ac openbsd-compat/port-tun.c] Add tunnel support for Mac OS X/Darwin via a third-party tun driver. Patch from reyk@, tested by anil@ --- README.platform | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.platform') diff --git a/README.platform b/README.platform index 4c18a3278..b7dc3f91c 100644 --- a/README.platform +++ b/README.platform @@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ gcc, gcc-mingw-core, mingw-runtime, binutils, make, openssl, openssl-devel, zlib, minres, minires-devel. +Darwin and MacOS X +------------------ +Darwin does not provide a tun(4) driver required for OpenSSH-based +virtual private networks. The BSD manpage still exists, but the driver +has been removed in recent releases of Darwin and MacOS X. + +Nevertheless, tunnel support is known to work with Darwin 8 and +MacOS X 10.4 in Point-to-Point (Layer 3) and Ethernet (Layer 2) mode +using a third party driver. More information is available at: + http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/ + + Solaris ------- If you enable BSM auditing on Solaris, you need to update audit_event(4) @@ -55,4 +67,4 @@ account stacks which will prevent authentication entirely, but will still return the output from pam_nologin to the client. -$Id: README.platform,v 1.6 2005/11/05 05:28:35 dtucker Exp $ +$Id: README.platform,v 1.7 2006/06/23 11:05:13 dtucker Exp $ -- cgit v1.2.3