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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2002 02:56:22 +0900
From:      Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>
To:        "chris scott" <c.scott@uk.tiscali.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-network@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   HEADS UP: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels
Message-ID:  <ygesmza8bp5.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>
In-Reply-To: <005a01c272ce$44b0c4a0$f100a8c0@viper>
References:  <005a01c272ce$44b0c4a0$f100a8c0@viper>

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Hi,

>>>>> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:36:16 +0100
>>>>> "chris scott" <c.scott@uk.tiscali.com> said:

c.scott> I've just cvsed up and made world to freebsd 4.7 stable, without a hitch.
c.scott> However when I rebooted my machine the vpn tunnel which it was running
c.scott> wouldnt come back up. After a while of checking configs and poking around I
c.scott> found it was because the gif interfaces were cinfigured and not up. A simple
c.scott> ifconfig gif0 up fixed this. I have never had to do this before as when I
c.scott> have created gif interfaces the device was automatically up, this doesnt
c.scott> seem to be the case anymore. Is this a new feature or a bug?

Doing up gif device automatically was a bug, and it was corrected.
/etc/rc.network was changed to do up gif tunnel during setup.  Please
don't forget to do mergemaster.

Sincerely,

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Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
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