From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 7:58:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CCF537B405 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 07:58:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id fB6FvVI12279; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:57:31 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:57:31 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get gif device working? Message-ID: <20011206175731.H82299@sunbay.com> Reply-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:49:53PM +0000, freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com wrote: > I'm trying to do some IPSec between a FreeBSD box and > a hardware VPN device, with little success. However I > just read (on the daemonnews site) that for tunnel mode > I need to use the gif device. Yet I cannot get the > thing to work. > > If I try "gifconfig gif0 inet src addr" > then I get the error "gifconfig: interface gif0 does not exist" > > This with the generic kernel. > > I must be missing something extremely obvious here but > I can't see what it is. MAKEDEV doesn't know anything about it. > This seems to be a common misunderstanding of how IPSEC works, and it comes from some widely distributed IPSEC FAQ, I think. You don't need a gif(4) for IPSEC to work on FreeBSD. Perhaps, old versions of FreeBSD required this, but doesn't now. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message