From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 12:35:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 328F737B404 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.50.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32FA43FA3 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:35:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kw3wong@engmail.uwaterloo.ca) Received: from ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (localhost.uwaterloo.ca [127.0.0.1]) h6AJZiWa010034; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:35:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kw3wong@engmail.uwaterloo.ca) Received: (from www@localhost) by ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (8.12.6p2/8.12.6/Submit) id h6AJZie3010033; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:35:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kw3wong@engmail.uwaterloo.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca: www set sender to kw3wong@engmail.uwaterloo.ca using -f Received: from 129.97.106.24 ( [129.97.106.24])with HTTP; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:35:44 -0400 Message-ID: <1057865744.3f0dc0103f795@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:35:44 -0400 From: kw3wong@engmail.uwaterloo.ca To: Luigi Rizzo References: <1057778632.3f0c6bc8af474@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> <20030709195455.A24039@xorpc.icir.org> <1057860615.3f0dac07e1418@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> <20030710113715.A37895@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20030710113715.A37895@xorpc.icir.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 / FreeBSD-4.6.2 X-Originating-IP: 129.97.106.24 cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: dsze@engmail.uwaterloo.ca Subject: Re: Question about bridging code X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:35:47 -0000 Hi Luigi, > It's just a naming issue, vmnetX is the network-device name of /dev/tapX. > (the ip-equivalent thing, "tun", has the same name for both the network > device and the device entry in the filesystem. As a matter of fact the > latter is totally arbitrary so "tun" perhaps should be called "vmnet"...) But when I do a ifconfig, only tapX devices are there, where there is no vmnetX devices. And when I set up the bridge with vmnetX, the kernel will complain that the vmnetX devices do not exist. Do I need to perform a makedev on it first to create the devices? If so, do they have a special major and minor number that I should assign it to? Bernie ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca