Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:11:57 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: brian@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: if_tun.ko seems broken Message-ID: <95801.964696317@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:26:48 %2B0100." <20000726162648.D28657@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:26:48 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > I think the device needs to be opened before you can do anything with > it. PPP of course does this for you, but if you want to ifconfig it > yourself you might try something like ``dd if=/dev/tun0 of=/dev/null > count=0'' first. Ah, okay. Having said this to the person who swore that ifconfig tun0 worked for him, he now remembers that he doesn, in fact, use ppp(8). :-) Thanks, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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