..you’ll always have love-hate relationship with the tools you work with.. blindly turning yourself into devoted-fanatic is another thing..

Enough bragging (let’s spare that). First we need to have /dev/tap0, /dev/tap1, etc., available using TunTap kernel extension.

I modify the small script from this post to have it available on background instead of keeping a shell open all the time:

I saved it as /usr/local/bin/setup-tap1.py

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#!/usr/bin/python
 
import os
while 1:
	try:
		file_path = '/dev/tap1'
		dev_file = os.open(file_path, os.O_RDWR)
		interface = 'tap1'
		while 1:
			pass
	except:
		print "tap interface is closing"
		exit()
		break

Let the shell takes care of putting it to background (daemon):

[root]$ /usr/local/bin/setup-tap1.py &

and there you have one working tap interface:

VirtualBox tap interface in Mac OSX Lion 10.7

[Moving-in would probably be easier if I started life with FreeBSD. More posts to come]