[strongSwan-dev] TAP-Windows6 driver integration

[Emanuil Hristov]

Hello Noel,
thank for the binaries.
I will test them later this week and report back performance numbers and
success stories :)

It's really good to have portable strognswan.

Cheers,

On 22 November 2016 at 01:36, Noel Kuntze <noel at familie-kuntze.de> wrote:

> On 19.11.2016 02:34, Noel Kuntze wrote:
> > On 17.11.2016 12:21, Emanuil Hristov wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > could you please binaries (as possible with charon-cmd) and tun/tap
> driver.
> >> > I really want to test it.
> > AFAIK, charon-cmd is not supported on Windows. Only charon-svc is.
> > I put that topic on my TODO, but I don't know when I'll get around to
> doing it.
> > I collected performance data as part of my bachelor thesis. It's
> available
> > in German in a Github repo[1]. The data is displayed and discussed in
> the thesis.
> >
> > Contains
> > - throughput data [2]
> > - CPU load and memory usage in a guest (The test client was a VBox VM)
> [3]
> > - CPU load on the host [4]
> >
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/Thermi/bachelorarbeit/tree/master/Bachelorarbeit
> > [2] https://github.com/Thermi/bachelorarbeit/blob/master/
> Bachelorarbeit/iperf_server_normalized.txt
> > [3] https://github.com/Thermi/bachelorarbeit/blob/master/
> Bachelorarbeit/benchmark_guest.txt
> > [4] https://github.com/Thermi/bachelorarbeit/blob/master/
> Bachelorarbeit/benchmark_data.txt
>
> I provide complete binaries and the driver over at a HTTP server[1] that I
> control.
> I have not tested this build. If you can not install the driver, hit me up.
> The driver must be installed using devcon.exe. You also require a working
> OpenSSL library
> for the crypto. Both can be gotten from OpenVPN for Windows. Just install
> it.
> "devcon.exe" is at "C:\Program Files\TAP-Window\bin\tapinstall.exe". It
> is called "tapinstall.exe",
> instead of "devcon.exe". The files in "tap-driver.tar.gz" must all be in
> the same directory.
>
> The following syntax is required to install a TAP device using the driver:
> "C:\Program Files\TAP-Window\bin\tapinstall.exe" install <path to
> OemVista.inf> tap0901
>
> The following syntax is required to remove all TAP devices using the
> driver tap0901:
> "C:\Program Files\TAP-Window\bin\tapinstall.exe" remove tap0901
>
> I do not know of a way to delete a device manually using the command line.
> But I think you can
> do it using the device manager.
>
> Regarding strongswan:
> Put all the libs and binaries into a single directory. Create a directory
> "swanctl" in that directory
> and store the swanctl configuration and required files in the apropriate
> subdirectory, as indicated
> by the wiki[2].
> Run `charon-svc.exe` as Administrator using cmd.exe (or powershell). You
> might also run it as a service.
> After that, load the swanctl style configuration using the `swanctl.exe`
> binary in a second window.
> Then initiate and control as usual. Allow all network access for
> `charon-svc.exe`.
> If you want to load a configuration using `strongswan.conf`, then put that
> file into the same directory as `charon-svc.exe`.
>
>
> [1] https://thermi.strangled.net/~thermi/strongswan-win32-tap/
> [2] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/SwanctlDirectory
>
> --
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards,
> Noel Kuntze
>
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