From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 13 9: 5:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from owa-sj-1.digisle.com (owa-sj-1.digisle.com [167.216.153.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DAB37B40F for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from VWALL-SJ-1.digisle.com ([167.216.153.118]) by owa-sj-1.digisle.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:06:28 -0700 Received: from 206.220.227.145 by VWALL-SJ-1.digisle.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:05:27 -0700 Message-ID: <3BA0D93D.EB2737B6@digisle.net> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:05:17 -0700 From: Maksim Yevmenkin Organization: Digital Island X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone experience problems with the "tap" device in current? References: <200109122359.f8CNxHg59969@ambrisko.com> <20010912221630.A60181@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Sep 2001 16:06:28.0616 (UTC) FILETIME=[0BDC9880:01C13C6E] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:59:16PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > > I just tried using tap in current. In both cases I don't see the > > /dev/tapX devices with devfs and accessing it without devfs doesn't > > work reporting "Device not configured". I tried it as a module and > > built into the kernel. Does anyone have this working? > > My guess is that the breakage is related to the recent commits > that were made to if_tap. VMWare doesn't work anymore on -current > because the NG modules aren't loaded. These, AFAICT, depend on > the device. > > So, at this time I can only acknowledge the breakage. I probably > won't have the time to suggest or implement fixes. the recent if_tap patch implements device cloning (a-la tun(4)). unfortunately i had to change vmnet device mask and that affects VMWare port because minor numbers for vmnet devices has changed. bottom line: in order to make vmnet working you need to change minor numbers for vmnet device nodes. another solution would be to link /dev/vmnet? to /compat/linux/dev/vmnet? port maintainer has been notified. i'm sorry for the trouble. thanks, max To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message