package vmnet

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MacOS X `vmnet` NAT networking

Install

Dune Dependency

Authors

Maintainers

Sources

vmnet-1.3.1.tbz
md5=2d29f60735a4579fcce6dee37bd015fe

Description

MacOS X 10.10 (Yosemite) introduced the somewhat undocumented vmnet framework. This exposes virtual network interfaces to userland applications. There are a number of advantages of this over previous implementations:

  • Unlike tuntaposx, this is builtin to MacOS X now and so is easier to package up and distribute for end users.
  • vmnet uses the XPC sandboxing interfaces and should make it easier to drop a hard dependency on running networking applications as root.
  • Most significantly, vmnet optionally supports NATing network traffic to the outside world, which was previously unsupported.

These OCaml bindings are constructed against the documentation contained in the <vmnet.h> header file in Yosemite, and may not be correct due to the lack of any other example code. However, they do suffice to run MirageOS applications that can connect to the outside world.

Note the application must be configured to use DHCP: static IPs are not supported.

Published: 23 Jan 2018

Dependencies (10)

  1. cstruct-unix
  2. cstruct >= "1.9.0"
  3. lwt >= "2.4.3" & < "4.0.0"
  4. ipaddr >= "1.4.0" & < "3.0.0"
  5. sexplib >= "113.24.00"
  6. ocaml-migrate-parsetree build & < "2.0.0"
  7. ppx_sexp_conv
  8. ppx_tools
  9. jbuilder >= "1.0+beta9"
  10. ocaml

Dev Dependencies

None

Used by (1)

  1. mirage-net-macosx < "1.6.0"

Conflicts

None