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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 2000 10:34:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Junichi Saito <j.saito@wanadoo.fr>
To:        Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009031026290.231-100000@kintaro>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009030306460.1699-100000@parmenides.utp.net>

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[the subject was: no tunnel device available, I forgot to put it]
 
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Janko van Roosmalen wrote:

>On FreeBSD 3.2 I use:
>
>  pseudo-device tun 2
>
>to make two tunnel devices. I have no experience with FreeBSD 4.0. But you
>could give it a try.
>
>Janko van Roosmalen - Netherlands

Thank you for the reply. I tried it but to no avail. What I can't
understand is why even the GENERIC kernel dosen't work.

j.

>On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 j.saito@wanadoo.fr wrote:
>> 
>> For  some  reason,  there  is  no tunnel device available on my system
>> (FreeBSD  4.0-RELEASE). I compiled the kernel with the support for it,
>> but when I run 'ifconfig -a' (as root), I only get this:
>> 
>> ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>> 
>> The divices files exist.
>> 
>> ls -l /dev/tun*
>> crw-------  1 uucp  dialer  52,  0 Aug 27 15:47 /dev/tun0
>> crw-------  1 uucp  dialer  52,  1 Aug 27 15:47 /dev/tun1
>> crw-------  1 uucp  dialer  52,  2 Aug 27 15:47 /dev/tun2
>> crw-------  1 uucp  dialer  52,  3 Aug 27 15:47 /dev/tun3
>> 
>> 
>> The same is true with the GENERIC kernel.
>> 
>> What  can be the reason ? Are there some other options to enable other
>> than 'pseudo-device  tun' ?
>> 
>





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