From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 7:58:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peedub.muc.de (p3E9B8F1F.dip.t-dialin.net [62.155.143.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9C737B744 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA57348; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:55:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200005261455.QAA57348@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: tobias.pirzer@web.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tun - interface ,4.0 stable Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 May 2000 14:53:32 +0200." <00052615023400.00657@entenpreis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:55:00 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tobias pirzer writes: >Hello > >Please help me, >I'm just another idiotic guy who can't get a tun interface . > >The Line : pseudo-device tun > >exists in my Kernel > >I also did a ./MAKEDEV tun0 in /dev >and I also compiled about 1000 kernels with different numbers of tun's >(and also rebooted my machine), >but > ifconfig tun0 >answered everytime i tried : > interface tun does not exist ! > >Can anybody help me ??? This was answered in the last few weeks, but here goes - the tun device is now automagically created when it's used by e.g. ppp. Before then it does not exist, so ifconfig will not work. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message