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Cc: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
Subject: Re: Problems with createing a tap interface.
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On Sunday 19 February 2006 09:17, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> #ifconfig tap create
> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid argument
>
> The if_tap module is loaded, but I can't seem to get around this. Any
> suggestions?

Yes, try to open the tap device and it will be created automagically...

root@brad:0:/usr/ports/mail/imp# ifconfig tap0
ifconfig: interface tap0 does not exist
root@brad:0:/usr/ports/mail/imp# < /dev/tap0
root@brad:0:/usr/ports/mail/imp# ifconfig tap0 
tap0: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        ether 00:bd:dc:d6:84:00
root@brad:0:/usr/ports/mail/imp#