open tun interface

tun.c

#include <fcntl.h>  /* O_RDWR */
#include <string.h> /* memset(), memcpy() */
#include <stdio.h> /* perror(), printf(), fprintf() */
#include <stdlib.h> /* exit(), malloc(), free() */
#include <sys/ioctl.h> /* ioctl() */

/* includes for struct ifreq, etc */
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <linux/if.h>
#include <linux/if_tun.h>

int tun_open(char *devname)
{
  struct ifreq ifr;
  int fd, err;

  if ( (fd = open("/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR)) == -1 ) {
       perror("open /dev/net/tun");exit(1);
  }
  memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
  ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_TUN;
  strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, devname, IFNAMSIZ);

  /* ioctl will use if_name as the name of TUN
   * interface to open: "tun0", etc. */
  if ( (err = ioctl(fd, TUNSETIFF, (void *) &ifr)) == -1 ) {
    perror("ioctl TUNSETIFF");close(fd);exit(1);
  }

  /* After the ioctl call the fd is "connected" to tun device specified
   * by devname */

  return fd;
}


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int fd, nbytes;
  char buf[1600];

  fd = tun_open("tun0") ;
  printf("Device tun0 opened\n");
  while(1) {
    nbytes = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
    printf("Read %d bytes from tun0\n", nbytes);
  }
  return 0;
}