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From: Peter W.Schmiedeskamp <pschmied@selway.umt.edu>
Reply-To: grendel@jazzandjava.com
To: Frank Laszlo <nez@freebsdmatrix.net>
Subject: Re: ppp in 4.4-Release
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:30:38 -0600
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On Friday 21 September 2001 02:45 pm, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> on 9/21/01 4:34 PM, Peter W.Schmiedeskamp used the force from
>
> pschmied@selway.umt.edu:
> > Hello, perhaps I'm missing something.  I just upgraded to 4.4 RELEASE. 
> > The long and the short of this is that I've re-set up my ppp.  I added my
> > user to the "network" group and made sure that /usr/sbin/ppp was had the
> > proper permissions (550 I believe).
> >
> > I've set my modem device to chmod 666 for testing purposes.
> >
> > Here's the kicker:
> >
> > As root I type "ppp -background" everything dials and I have net access.
> >
> > As normal user I type "ppp -background" (or if I do the interactive
> > prompt it does this too) and it tells me:
> >
> > "Warning: No available tunnel devices found (No such file or directory)"
> >
> > Can anyone shed any light on this one for me?  I think my setup is
> > identical to when I had 4.3, so this is a tad perplexing.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.  Also, thanks to the FreeBSD developers for another
> > release.  Every time it gets a bit better, when the time before I could
> > have sworn it was perfect. :-)
> >
> > -Peter
> >
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> check your kernel for
>
> pseudo-device tun
>
> if its not there, then add it

I forgot to mention it, but yes, the pseudo-device tun is compiled in to the 
kernel.

Any other suggestions?

-Peter

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