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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:15:20 +0100
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Subject: Re: tap interface, bridging and freebsd 5.3
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Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:18:55PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli typed:
> 
>>Andrea Riela wrote:
>>
>>
>>>but I don't see a tap interface in /dev or with ifconfig ...
>>
>>You won't see any network interface in /dev; just run ifconfig -a and
>>check: you won't find any of the listed devices in /dev.
> 
> 
> That's right; they live in /dev/net/ :

Nice to know :)
Is this new to 5.x?
I don't see them in a 4.11 system...

  bye & Thanks
	av.