From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 22:58:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA22071 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pino.ngonet.be (pino.ngonet.be [193.190.166.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA22066 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gonzo.ngonet.be (tommie.ngonet.be [193.190.166.2]) by pino.ngonet.be (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA28550; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 06:54:29 +0200 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960730055635.006a7364@ppp-gw> X-Sender: gul@ppp-gw X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:56:35 +0200 To: Red Barchetta , questions@freebsd.org From: Gunter Loos Subject: Re: user ppp question Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 21:06 29/07/96 EDT, you wrote: >Hello- > >I asked a few days ago if anyone knew what could cause errors of the form >My modem is on COM2 (/dev/cuaa1), but I have created tun0 in the /dev >directory using MAKEDEV because I have found no indication that it should be >tun1. Does the number of the tunnel device need to correspond to that of the >com port? Nope. But it should have been compiled into the kernel: pseudo device tun... Just creating it in /dev doesn't help. PPP just takes the first free tunnel device to set up the connection. > >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). I never did, it always worked.. Gul.