[oi-dev] Please update tuntap in SFE

[Adam Števko]

Hi,

an up-to-date tuntap with openvpn is available in hipster. Building it for /dev should not be hard component Makefiles can be reused.

Hope that helps. 

Cheers,
Adam

> On Nov 3, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
> 
>> On 2013-11-03 12:34, Jim Klimov wrote:
>> Hello all, and probably primarily Milan :)
>> 
>>   The TUNTAP package in the SFE repository markets itself as version
>> 1.3.0, but the loaded module reports that it is 1.1.0. I've fetched
>> the tuntap/src package, and apparently it includes an older tarball
>> of the sources (Jul 2011, timeframe long before 1.3.x indeed) which
>> does not have the TCP watermark fixes of 1.3.0 and later, that boost
>> performance of the OpenVPN tunnels noticeably.
> 
> Looking at the spec-file, I see where the old source may be coming from:
> 
> %define src_name tuntap
> %define src_url http://www.whiteboard.ne.jp/~admin2/tuntap/source/%{src_name}
> 
> This path does indeed contain a copy of the code, and of obsolete one
> at that (probably the one used to make the package as of now).
> 
> The automatic tarball to current source is:
>  https://github.com/kaizawa/tuntap/archive/master.tar.gz
> Which saves itself as tuntap-master.tar.gz
> 
> //Jim
> 
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