[SOLVED] Where did uml_utilities go?

Question

Trying to do:
[root@host ~]# tunctl -b -u 1001
Which doesn't work because i need uml_utilities, and that package can't be found anywhere (AUR, Core, Extra)?
Any ideas to what i should do or where to get it?
I've installed bridge-utils so that works fine, now i need tunctl, or is there a equivilant?
I know OpenVPN can handle this without uml_utilities so i assume there's a workaround if this package is not supported but in that case, how?
Last edited by Torxed (2013-06-04 11:02:54)

Answer 1

trapanator wrote:Is it possible to receive the name of newly tun device with the 'ip tuntap add...' command?  i.e. tun0
I wrote this script as a drop-in replacement for tunctl. If anybody has improvement ideas, please do post them!
#!/bin/bash
# Drop-in replacement for tunctl from the old uml_utilities
# replaced by ip from the iproute2 package.
# By Alexandre de Verteuil 2013-06-06.
if ! which ip &> /dev/null; then
echo "ip not found, is iproute2 package installed?" >&2
exit 1
fi
while getopts d:bu:t: argument
do
case $argument in
d)
ip tuntap del dev "$OPTARG" mode tap
exit $?
u)
USERARG="user $OPTARG"
b)
#Brief, there is no verbose.
t)
DEVNAME="dev $OPTARG"
esac
done
# Memorize existing tap devices.
before=$(ip tuntap list | cut -d: -f1 | sort)
# Create the new tap device.
ip tuntap add $DEVNAME mode tap $DEVNAME || exit 1
# Memorize the new list of tap devices.
after=$(ip tuntap list | cut -d: -f1 | sort)
# Spit out the name of the new device, just like tunctl would do.
echo $(comm -13 <(echo "$before") <(echo "$after"))
I saved it as /usr/local/bin/tunctl.