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Date:      Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:18:59 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Can't use gifconfig on my Alpha - works on i386
Message-ID:  <20030101161858.GI27256@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <87n0mldgtz.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
References:  <87n0mldgtz.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:22:16PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I'm trying to use the freenet6 port to establish an IPv6 tunnel.  I already
> had this working 100% correctly on a FreeBSD-4.7 x86 firewall, and copied
> the configuration over to it's new FreeBSD-4.7 alpha replacement.
> Apparently, there are some problems with the interaction of ifconfig and
> gifconfig, but only on the alpha.
> 
> On the x86 machine:
> 
>     root@kanga# ifconfig gif0 create
>     root@kanga# /usr/sbin/gifconfig gif0 inet 208.162.254.126 206.123.31.114
>     root@kanga# ifconfig gif0 destroy
> 
> On the alpha:
> 
>     root@gopher# ifconfig gif0 create
>     root@gopher# /usr/sbin/gifconfig gif0 inet 208.162.254.126 206.123.31.114
>     gifconfig: gif0 is not gif.

gifconfig is obsolete.
Please try: ifconfig gif0 tunnel 208.162.254.126 206.123.31.114

> Although the kernel config files are obviously a little different between
> the two platforms, they are mostly identical in the non-hardware-dependent
> parts.
> 
> Has anyone else made this work?

I'm running several IPv6 gif tunnels on a 4.6-STABLE alpha.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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