Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:13:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Red Barchetta <paradox@pegasus.rutgers.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user ppp question Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960729221222.320P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <CMM-RU.1.5.838688808.paradox@pegasus.rutgers.edu>
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On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Red Barchetta wrote: > I asked a few days ago if anyone knew what could cause errors of the form > > ifindex: not found > open_tun: no such file or directory > > when user ppp is started. Actually, ppp terminates right there, i.e. I dont > get the ppp on hostname> prompt. Well, I wasn't able to solve the problem > with the few answers I received, so I'm asking again if anyone knows what > could cause this. Did you compile a kernel with pseudo-device tun 1 in the config file? It looks like the tunnel device doesn't exist, which is required for user mode ppp. > Also, should tun0 be set up in /etc/sysconfig? I get the same error messages > whther or not it is. If I remember right, for the few days that I ran > 2.1.0R, I didn't have tun0 set up but user ppp worked just fine (at least I > got a ppp on hostname> prompt). No. PPP will config the tun0 device for you. (That's what it's trying to do when the error occurs, actually) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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