Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 19:40:45 -0800 From: Brian Raynes <lbpuppy@alaska.net> To: <doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pedantic PPP primer and ppp(8) man page missing important info? Message-ID: <B60289BD.659%lbpuppy@alaska.net> In-Reply-To: <39DCF42D.EE9E7984@dnr.state.ak.us>
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on 10/5/00 1:35 PM, Brian Raynes at brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us wrote: > 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 :<. I guess I have to take part of that back. There is a note in the most current version of the handbook. The version I have printed out has been since 4.1 release, but it didn't yet have this. Still it's there, even though most of that section still describes the pre 4.x behavior. Brian Raynes > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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