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Symbian WinTap

Description

This package contains a solution for connecting the Symbian OS Emulator to Internet.
WinTap lets you access IP services running on the desktop, or using Internet Connection Sharing on the desktop’s default internet connection.

It consists of two parts. There is an Ethernet Symbian C++ PDD which is used to connect to and communicate with a custom Windows device driver. The Windows driver is a free (GPL) driver called TAP-win32 adapter developed by the OpenVpn and CIPE projects which has to be downloaded and installed.

Installation and use

Download the ‘WinTap’ package.
Unzip the package and extract the contents to a suitable location.

Requirements

Perl 5.6 or higher. It requires the installation of the OpenVPN open source SSL VPN component on the target PC which can be downloaded from the link: http://openvpn.net/download.html

Support and Maintenance

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Compatibility

Symbian OS v8.1b, v9.1+ (Only when using an emulator upon Windows platform).