Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:35:41 +0100 From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net> To: Naga R Narayanaswamy <nraju@mindspring.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging and 'pseudo-device tap' and PPPoE Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020106163446.03f96bb0@mail.drwilco.net> In-Reply-To: <3C372238.F529FB40@mindspring.com>
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> > I've used bridging with tap devices plenty. Works fine for me.
>
>What bridging method do you use with tap device ?
>option BRIDGE in kernel method OR netgraph bridging method?
Netgraph bridging.
> > TAP devices don't actually work unless there's a process that has the
> /dev/ entry
> > opened and reads from it (well, they'll buffer a little).
>
>So, just let a process like "cat /dev/tap0" read the tap device, I
>assume.
Yup, should work.
Greets,
Doc
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