From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 24 11:46:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from voicenet.com (mail12.voicenet.com [207.103.0.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B3D615102 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:46:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@voicenet.com) Received: (qmail 25490 invoked from network); 24 Dec 1999 19:46:12 -0000 Received: from dialpool0846-pri.voicenet.com (HELO voicenet.com) (209.71.86.241) by mail12.voicenet.com with SMTP; 24 Dec 1999 19:46:12 -0000 Message-ID: <3863CED3.103E2B14@voicenet.com> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:51:47 -0500 From: "Peter A. Schwenk" Organization: Schwenk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Riaan Kruger Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tun device and tunneling References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The tun device is for user-land PPP to get services from the kernel. While user-land PPP handles the whole of the PPP protocol, it still needs stuff from the kernel. It's not for general network protocol tunneling, if that's what you were thinking. Riaan Kruger wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find more information (except for 'man tun') on > the tun device and how it can be used for tunneling? > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Riaan Kruger > Date: 24-Dec-99 > Time: 11:17:21 > ---------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- - Peter Schwenk - schwenk@voicenet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message