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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 14:08:36 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: gaof@public.intercom.com.cn
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Please tell me why
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On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 11:53:02AM +0800, Gao Fei wrote:
> when I run ppp, it tells me:
> No tunnel device is available.
> open_tun: No such file or directory
>
> but /dev/tun0 exits. I run MAKEDEV tun0,
> it still tell me:
> No tunnel device is available.
> open_tun: No such file or directory
>
> I don't know why?

How many tunnel devices do you have configured?  Look at the output of
ifconfig -a.

Greg