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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:59:14 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW rules on tunX devices
Message-ID:  <20020620105712.A72467-100000@atlantis.dp.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20020619165721.B438@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au.lucky.freebsd.stable>

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Hello!

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I have a situation where I want to have some ipfw rules permanently
> associated with tun0.  In 4.5-RELEASE, I just included lines like the
> following in the rules file specified as firewall_type in rc.conf:
>   add 11010 allow tcp from 10.2.3.4 to 10.2.3.5 keep-state in recv tun0 setup
>
> In 4.6-RELEASE, the tun devices are created on demand and so tun0
> doesn't exist don't exist when the firewall rules are added.  Other
> than starting ppp(8), how do I create tun0?  I thought
> 	ifconfig tun0 create
> would work, but that returns:
> 	ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid argument

 I've added the following label to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf:

dummy:
 quit

Then the following command should generate tun0:

ppp -foreground dummy 1>/dev/null 2>&1


Sincerely, Dmitry

Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
e-mail:  dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua
nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE


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