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From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <ext-jukka.ukkonen@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: kern/55917: tun# devices cannot be created in 4.8-STABLE
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The following reply was made to PR kern/55917; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <ext-jukka.ukkonen@nokia.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jau@mawit.com
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Subject: Re: kern/55917: tun# devices cannot be created in 4.8-STABLE
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:18:07 +0300

 	Also it should be noted that failing to create the tun#
 	interfaces with ifconfig creates a chicken and egg problem
 	when the devfs becomes the default /dev replacing the
 	current statically created device nodes. Then the only way
 	to make some tun# devices visible in the /dev would be
 	a line like
 
 	pseudo-device tun	4	# create 4 tunnel devices
 
 	specifying a predefined number of tun# devices in the kernel
 	config.
 
 	If the devices were created using ifconfig, there would
 	be no problem, because a new master device could appear
 	automatically in the devfs after the ifconfig create
 	command.
 
 -- 
 	Cheers,
 		// jau
 
 	A computer, to print out a fact,
 	will divide, multiply, and subtract.
 	But this output can be
 	no more than debris,
 	if the input was short of exact.
 			-- Gigo