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From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
To: Rich Neswold <rneswold@enteract.com>
Cc: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Wmnet port doesn't display tunneling device
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 09:06:11AM -0500, Rich Neswold wrote:
> Wasn't it 11-Jul-2000, at 06:52PM, when David J. Kanter said:
> > After upgrading from FreeBSD 3.5 -> 4.0, my wmnet no longer works
> > consistently or properly. It does not consistently display tun0, and the
> > device display name is off.
> > 
> > In my kernel config I have pseudo-device tun, but wmnet -i tun0 will only
> > display ppp0. Cycling through sometimes eventually reveals a tun0, other
> > times no tun0 is available.
> > 
> > I uninstalled, then reinstalled the port and it worked OK. But then I
> > logged out and logged back in and it did not work.
> > 
> > Also, if you cycle through the devices with the mouse and get to one of
> > those longer devices, like faith, the "0" from faith0 remains in the LED
> > section when cycling through the devices again.
> 
> When I ported the app (and rewrote the interface stuff), I was using 2.2.8.
> I know some things changed in 3.X -- although not enough to break the app.
> I'll look into the 4.0 internals to see if it has deviated further.
> 
> I use wmnet all the time with no problems. But I haven't monitored the
> tunnel device in a while and my network card name is short enough, so I
> didn't catch the overrun.
>
I think the problem with tun0 is that in 4.0 the tun0 device is created
dynamically when it is needed. Therefore it doesn't always show up in
wmnet. 

Karel. 


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