Re: [tuntaposx-users] Update on Lion fixes

[Dave P. <dav...@gm...>]

We've been using Mattias' fixes on our end and all seems well so far!

Cheers,
Dave

On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Jonathan K. Bullard wrote:

> After a limited amount of testing on Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Lion, I have just uploaded a new Tunnelblick version with these fixes. See Tunnelblick Issue 44 for details.
> 
> Restoring PPC support turned out to be absurdly easy -- I just use Tunnelblick's existing patch-before-build mechanism.
> 
> I have also separately emailed about this to several people with whom I have been corresponding privately.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Mattias Nissler <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> I've made the first few changes. The experimental branch is at
> http://tuntaposx.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=tuntaposx/tuntaposx;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/lion_fixes
> 
> Updated package is attached, if you want to give it a try.
> 
> On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 23:24 +0200, Mattias Nissler wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I finally managed to upgrade my mini and I have started looking into the
> > problems you reported. Quick update:
> >
> > 1. I'll probably drop PPC support from the next release for the sake of
> > being able to compile with the latest toolchain from Apple.
> 
> I've done this.
> 
> >
> > 2. The stack from Jonathan is also an ioctl() call, so it's like that it
> > is the same problem Dave is seeing. I cannot say for sure since the
> > symbol table of the tunnelblick tuntap build differs from the official
> > build, and I haven't gone through the trouble of getting a correct
> > symbol table for a tunnelblick tun binary. Why does tunnelblick build
> > own binaries in the first place?
> >
> > 3. Regarding the struct ifaddr layout differences between Lion and
> > earlier versions of OS X, I'm looking into alternatives that don't
> > require knowledge of the actual struct, since we've now learned that
> > it's not stable, so it may break again. I don't know yet whether such a
> > solution exists, I'll look into it some more.
> 
> Turned out this was rather easy and the new code doesn't require
> knowledge of the struct ifaddr layout.
> 
> Next up: Reading the cdevsw_add discussion on the mail thread ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Mattias
> 
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