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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:53:18 -0500
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>, Stable FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: tun0 
Message-ID:  <200012202353.eBKNrI581531@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:23:42 %2B0200." <977351022.3a41316e3f8da@webmail.harmonic.co.il> 
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> Quoting Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:53:07AM -0000, G D McKee wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > In FreeBSD 4.1.1 tun0 device came up automatically on boot.  How can I
> > configure this in 4.2?
> > 
> > It's there, its just not in your interfaces list until you use it.
> > 
> > If you don't believe me:
> > 
> > 	dd if=/dev/tun0 of=/dev/null count=0
> > 
> Does it work?
> I had to write my own program which even uses setitimer() to break out of read()
> :)

From the shell, I can just do this to create a new instance of a tun interface:

root@whizzo[21] # < /dev/tun1
root@whizzo[22] # ifconfig tun1
tun1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
root@whizzo[23] # 

You don't actually need to read it, just open it..

louie




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