what about Linux?

Owned by Xavier Vilajosana
Last updated: Mar 24, 2014 by Thomas Watteyne
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Recent versions of iproute2 have native tun/tap support:

~$ip tuntap help
Usage: ip tuntap { add | del } [ dev PHYS_DEV ]
          [ mode { tun | tap } ] [ user USER ] [ group GROUP ]
          [ one_queue ] [ pi ] [ vnet_hdr ]
Where: USER  := { STRING | NUMBER }
       GROUP := { STRING | NUMBER }

To create a tap (or tun) interface for the openwsn user:

~$sudo ip tuntap add dev mytun mode tun user openwsn
~$sudo ip link set mytun up
~$sudo ip addr add 10.0.0.1/24 dev mytun

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