Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:33:48 +0100 From: "Alain G. Fabry" <alainfabry@belgacom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creation of tap interface Message-ID: <20071123173348.GA41157@mail.pcextreme.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071123105953.GJ66812@amilo.cenkes.org> References: <20071122214158.GA37193@mail.pcextreme.nl> <20071123105953.GJ66812@amilo.cenkes.org>
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:59:55PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:41:58PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm setting up Qemu, have installed Ubuntu and Gentoo guests on > > FreeBSD host but I would like to get the network interfaces to > > work also. > > > > I get the following error however when trying to create the tap > > interfaces > > > > FreeBSD# ifconfig tap create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid > > argument > > > > What is the problem here? > > The command should work as you typed it, but try this: > # kldload if_tap > # ifconfig tap0 create > ^^^ I actually tried that already aswell but it didn't work. So I added device tap in the kernel, recompiled and still the same problem FreeBSD# kldload if_tap kldload: can't load if_tap: File exists --> I guess because I compiled it in the kernel FreeBSD# ifconfig tap0 create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid argument FreeBSD# ifconfig tun0 create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid argument --> get the same for a tun interface > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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