From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 5 14:34:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ancmail1.state.ak.us (ancmail1.state.ak.us [146.63.92.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7A937B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dnr.state.ak.us ([146.63.110.47]) by ancmail1.state.ak.us (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G1Z7XQ00.50Y; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:34:38 -0800 Message-ID: <39DCF42D.EE9E7984@dnr.state.ak.us> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 13:35:41 -0800 From: Brian Raynes X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Reynolds~ , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pedantic PPP primer and ppp(8) man page missing important info? References: <39DCEF8A.C68CD678@dnr.state.ak.us> <14812.61559.149027.165594@hip186.ch.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Reynolds~ wrote: > > [ On Thursday, October 5, Brian Raynes wrote: ] > > > > Also the GENERIC kernel config has no numbers after the pseudo-device > > tun, which I interpreted to mean that a tun device was not being > > created. Even after changing this, and recompiling several kernels, I > > could not get past the stage of confirming the existence of a tun > > interface. > > not that it helps your specific problem very much, but I believe in the > RELENG_4 branch a simple "tun" psuedo-device will suffice and the code will > generate as many as it needs. A lot of the other psuedo-devices work this way > too. I think that's a great feature, if only there was some mention of it in the appropriate docs and man pages. Not only does the current documentation not mention this feature, but it still indicates the old behavior - which is even a worse problem :<. Thanks for the fast response - these volunteer support mechanisms still amaze me constantly :). > > But yeah, you're absolutely right. Before I moved over to broadband service, > getting PPP to do what I wanted was a couple of frustrating nights .... > > -Jr > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | > | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | > | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message