Running picoTCP on Linux

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Prerequisite packages

Please make sure you have the latest version of the following packages installed on your OS:

• vde2
• libvdeplug (development files)
• libpcap (development files)

e.g. for Ubuntu 14.04:

$ sudo apt-get install vde2
$ sudo apt-get install libvdeplug2-dev   
$ sudo apt-get install libpcap0.8-dev   
$ sudo apt-get install openvpn

e.g. for OpenSUSE and derivatives

$ sudo zypper install vde2
$ sudo zypper install libvdeplug3-devel
$ sudo zypper install libpcap-devel

e.g. for Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S vde2

Virtual devices

Sometimes you just want to mess around with some code without having hardware near at hand. picoTCP has tun/tap and vde support so it can run natively on your Linux distribution of choice without a problem! For more info we refer to: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt
http://sourceforge.net/p/vde/wiki/Home/

Example application

To run an example application, ensure that you first run

make test

to build the application excutables. Once done, refer to the Example application page.