From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 5 19:40:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F6616B611 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:40:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E3E43D76 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:40:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54A31FFACC; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 21:40:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 661D71FFACB; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 21:40:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9E64448D6; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:36:20 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: David Gilbert In-Reply-To: <17540.30581.541897.566515@canoe.dclg.ca> Message-ID: <20060605193051.B79180@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <17540.30581.541897.566515@canoe.dclg.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tun and SIOCSIFADDR X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:40:20 -0000 On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, David Gilbert wrote: > I read in the if_tun manpage that it supports SIOCSIFADDR (such that > it works with ifconfig). I like examples, so I search the ifconfig > source code for SIOCSIFADDR. None. Then I search the entire source > tree. ppp uses it to set the IPX address. Obviously SIOCSIFADDR is > not the preferred way to do this anymore. Hints? SIOCSIFADDR/SIOCSIFDSTADDR was deprecated about 10 years ago. See man 4 netintro /Calls which are now deprecated are . If you want SIOCSIFADDR/SIOCSIFDSTADDR for tun you need a patch I have in my tree. SIOCAIFADDR is what you really want. Look at ppp sources for examples for example. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT