From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 25 9: 4:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whalers.digisle.net (whalers.digisle.net [167.216.128.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7C037B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:04:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from chef.digisle.com (chef.digisle.com [167.216.152.38]) by whalers.digisle.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/mx) with ESMTP id RAA27735; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:06:34 GMT Received: from guinness.digisle.com (guinness.digisle.com [167.216.152.33]) by chef.digisle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/digisle) with ESMTP id RAA06326; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:04:15 GMT Received: from digisle.com (peahi.digisle.com [206.220.227.147]) by guinness.digisle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA26866; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:04:14 GMT Message-ID: <3A705B4D.C0D2E678@digisle.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:58:53 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin Organization: Digital Island X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'Suma H R'" , Brahma Naidu Golla , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pseudo ethernet interface References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B57@l04.research.kpn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is it possible to provide pseudo ethernet interfaces? > > Can we associate an IP and MAC address with a psuedo ethernet > > interface > > to facilitate data packet transmission & reception through that? yes. > > If so, how does it work? > > Pointers to any documentation in this regard will be appreciated. > > $ man tap $ man ng_ether > Have you looked at the tun device? this is IP only. thanks, emax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message