Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:09:31 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Now you see it, now you don't (was: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp Makefile) Message-ID: <199908312309.AAA01467@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:05:54 %2B0200." <31641.936137154@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> In message <19990901072818.Q13904@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
> >>
> >> Uhm, sorry, wasn't paying attention there: The tun device is created
> >> when you open it, Ie:
> >>
> >> rover# date < /dev/tun0
> >> Tue Aug 31 21:35:05 GMT 1999
> >> rover# ifconfig -a
> >> [...]
> >> tun0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >> rover#
> >
> >Huh? Since when does that happen? None of the boxes I have running
> >behave like this. Or am I opening the in some mysterious way? For
> >example, I have
>
> Since the "cloning" change to the if_tun driver, which made it
> unneeded to preconfigure the number of tun devices in your
> kernel config. A similar change was made to bpf and pty.
This works ok on my -current boxes, but not at installation time (as
demonstrated in my email). Ppp gets ``device not configured'' rather
than the tun_create() working as expected.
I'll do some more experimentation...
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
> FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!
>
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