From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 6 1:51:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC5E37B40D for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:51:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5691YU01336; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 02:01:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200106060901.f5691YU01336@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: angshumand@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifupdown in BSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jun 2001 01:43:48 PDT." <20010606084348.26255.qmail@web9503.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 02:01:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Coming from a Linux background, I am used to being > able to ifup / ifdown interfaces at will... BSD > soesn't seem to have these programs - and if I say > ifconfig tun0 down, for example, the interface still > shows up in ifconfig. Now when my vtun program tries > to allocate new device, it can't since tun0 thru tun3 > are already taken. How do i put these interfaces down? You probably want to delete the interface, not down it. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message