Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 11:13:09 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tun0 problem in 3.0-970209-SNAP Message-ID: <9983.863028789@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 1997 15:07:06 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.970507144915.6423H-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk>
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> Anyway, it's fairly simple: > > here's a snip from ifconfig > tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1524 > inet 194.222.196.174 --> 158.152.1.222 netmask 0xffffff00 Don't do that. ppp should be managing the tun0 device *exclusively* and you shouldn't be ifconfig'ing it at all. > So, I type ifconfig tun0 down, and I can _STILL_ ping the other end of > the line ? really that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Because you're not supposed to be frobbing tun0 at all, that's why. :) Control its state entirely through ppp, please. Jordan
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