Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:10:49 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Wyatt Banks <banksw@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using pseudo-device tun Message-ID: <20010624181049.C11961@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106241531580.37015-100000@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>; from banksw@fang.cs.sunyit.edu on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:35:45PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106241531580.37015-100000@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:35:45PM -0400, Wyatt Banks wrote: > I'm currently following the handbook on how to dial into another machine > using ppp and having some difficulty getting a tun device working. Here > is the output from grep tun mykernel: > > pseudo-device tun 1 # Packet tunnel. > pseudo-device gif 4 # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling > > I then rebuilt this kernel, installed it and rebooted, but ifconfig -a > gives me the following output which shows no tun devices: [snip] > Did I do something wrong in my kernel? Am I supposed to use a gif instead > of a tun somehow? A tun(4) won't show up until you start ppp(8). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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