From owner-freebsd-net Sun Jan 6 7:26:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from artemis.drwilco.net (artemis.drwilco.net [209.167.6.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E8D37B400 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:26:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ceres.drwilco.net (docwilco.xs4all.nl [213.84.68.230]) by artemis.drwilco.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g06FQjR35923 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified NO); Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:26:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from drwilco@drwilco.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020106163446.03f96bb0@mail.drwilco.net> X-Sender: lists@mail.drwilco.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:35:41 +0100 To: Naga R Narayanaswamy , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Subject: Re: Bridging and 'pseudo-device tap' and PPPoE In-Reply-To: <3C372238.F529FB40@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I've used bridging with tap devices plenty. Works fine for me. > >What bridging method do you use with tap device ? >option BRIDGE in kernel method OR netgraph bridging method? Netgraph bridging. > > TAP devices don't actually work unless there's a process that has the > /dev/ entry > > opened and reads from it (well, they'll buffer a little). > >So, just let a process like "cat /dev/tap0" read the tap device, I >assume. Yup, should work. Greets, Doc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message