arkamar / tapcat

Minimalistic tap-ucspi utility

tapcat

A minimalistic ucspi utility to concatenate and redirect tap devices.

Usage

Create tap0 device on both local and remote machines and turn them on

ip tuntap add tap0 mode tap user user_name group group_name
ip link set dev tap0 up

Creating vpn tunnel over ssh

tapcat tap0 ssh user@server tapcat tap0

Creating insecure tunnel over TCP with ncat

Server side:

tapcat tap0 ncat -klp 1234

Client side:

tapcat tap0 ncat 10.0.0.2 1234

See Also

vpnbox