build system: provide configure option --enable-hacky-parallel

[secnet.git] / README

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ secnet - flexible VPN software
 
 * Copying
 
-secnet is Copyright (C) 1995--2001 Stephen Early <steve@greenend.org.uk>
+secnet is Copyright (C) 1995--2003 Stephen Early <steve@greenend.org.uk>
 It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
 version 2 or later.  See the file COPYING for more information.
 
@@ -121,12 +121,6 @@ f is a dictionary:
 
 Note that f/g/e is NOT 4.
 
-In a future version of secnet it will also be permissible to list
-other dictionaries before a dictionary definition,
-eg. <defaults,otherdefaults>{definitions}.  These will be searched in
-order for keys, before the lexical parent.  (This is not yet
-implemented)
-
 Elements that are lists are inserted into lists in definitions, not
 referenced by them (i.e. you can't have lists of lists).
 
@@ -140,11 +134,14 @@ closure { definitions } is short for closure({definitions}).
 The main body of secnet, and all the additional modules, predefine
 some keys in the root dictionary.  The main ones are:
 
-  yes, true, True, TRUE:   the boolean value True
-  no, false, False, FALSE: the boolean value False
+  yes, true, True, TRUE, on:   the boolean value True
+  no, false, False, FALSE, off: the boolean value False
   makelist:   turns a dictionary (arg1) into a list of definitions
               (ignoring the keys)
   readfile:   reads a file (arg1) and returns it as a string
+  map:        applies the closure specified as arg1 to each of the
+              remaining elements in the list in turn.  Returns a list
+              made up of the outputs of the closure.
 
 Keys defined by modules are described below, in the module
 documentation.
@@ -202,6 +199,7 @@ Defines:
   udp (closure => comm closure)
 
 udp: dict argument
+  address (string): IP address to listen and send on
   port (integer): UDP port to listen and send on
   buffer (buffer closure): buffer for incoming packets
   authbind (string): optional, path to authbind-helper program
@@ -340,6 +338,7 @@ a netlink closure:
       other tunnels as well as the host (used for mobile devices like laptops)
     soft-route: remove these routes from the host's routing table when
       the tunnel link quality is zero
+  mtu (integer): default MTU over this link; may be updated by tunnel code
 
 Netlink will dump its current routing table to the system/log on
 receipt of SIGUSR1.
@@ -363,24 +362,20 @@ Defines:
   tun-old (closure => netlink closure)
 
 tun: dict argument
+  flavour (string): optional, type of TUN interface to use
+    ("guess","linux","bsd","streams")
   device (string): optional, path of TUN/TAP device file ["/dev/net/tun"]
   interface (string): optional, name of tunnel network interface
   ifconfig-path (string): optional, path to ifconfig command
   route-path (string): optional, path to route command
+  ifconfig-type (string): optional, how to perform ifconfig
+  route-type (string): optional, how to add and remove routes
+   types are: "guess", "ioctl", "bsd", "linux", "solaris-2.5"
   buffer (buffer closure): buffer for host->secnet packets
  plus generic netlink options, as for 'null-netlink'
 
-tun-old: dict argument
-  device (string): optional, path of TUN/TAP device file ["/dev/tun*"]
-  interface (string): optional, name of tunnel network interface
-  interface-search (bool): optional, whether to search for a free tunnel
-    interface (True if 'device' not specified, otherwise False)
-  ifconfig-path (string): optional, path to ifconfig command
-  route-path (string): optional, path to route command
- plus generic netlink options, as for 'null-netlink'
-
- I recommend you don't specify the 'interface' option unless you're
- doing something that requires the interface name to be constant.
+I recommend you don't specify the 'interface' option unless you're
+doing something that requires the interface name to be constant.
 
 ** rsa