From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 22:13:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA18393 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.231]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA18388 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00467; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:13:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Red Barchetta cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user ppp question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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