Using the TAP driver with windows 7.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:01 am
Hello.
Me and my classmate are coding our own tun/tap based VPN since few weeks, and we
want to port it on windows.
I learned about the tap driver released by the OpenVPN project, but I failed at
finding any good quality documentation about it. Can you point me at some
resources or tutorials on how to behave with the tap driver under windows ?
As far I know, in the OpenVPN source code, you use CreateFile to create a
network interface handle but I don't quite understand how you get that device
Path. In the Windows device manager I can find a Physical Device Object Name
which is something like "\Device\000000b2". Can I pass this directly to
CreateFile ? Or do I need to prefix this with "\\.\" or something like this ?
Thanks !
Me and my classmate are coding our own tun/tap based VPN since few weeks, and we
want to port it on windows.
I learned about the tap driver released by the OpenVPN project, but I failed at
finding any good quality documentation about it. Can you point me at some
resources or tutorials on how to behave with the tap driver under windows ?
As far I know, in the OpenVPN source code, you use CreateFile to create a
network interface handle but I don't quite understand how you get that device
Path. In the Windows device manager I can find a Physical Device Object Name
which is something like "\Device\000000b2". Can I pass this directly to
CreateFile ? Or do I need to prefix this with "\\.\" or something like this ?
Thanks !