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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: if_tun.ko seems broken 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:26:48 +0100."
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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.


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