config: consistently enable TUN and VETH across arches#102
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They're already enabled on x86_64, enable on other architectures as well. TUN is especially useful for VPN clients. Signed-off-by: Val Packett <val@invisiblethingslab.com>
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Could you please build a kernel for x86_64 and aarch64 with the desired options enabled and compare the sizes of the resulting binaries? |
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Discussion about NFTABLES aside, this change LGTM and makes sense, thanks @valpackett !
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They're already enabled on x86_64, enable on other architectures as well. TUN is especially useful for VPN clients.
Discussion: Would be great for us if NF_TABLES (with very basic modules like conntrack/counter/..) were also enabled, would that be too much of a space increase?
For some background: for Clan we're working on an app platform where peer-to-peer apps could be shipped as microVMs pre-connected to a mesh VPN / overlay network, aiming to support various VPN solutions. While some like ZeroTier are perfectly happy with just a TUN interface, others like Tailscale have a hard requirement on being able to configure nftables.