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Date:      Fri, 26 May 2000 16:55:00 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
To:        tobias.pirzer@web.de
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tun - interface ,4.0 stable 
Message-ID:  <200005261455.QAA57348@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 May 2000 14:53:32 %2B0200." <00052615023400.00657@entenpreis> 

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tobias pirzer writes:
>Hello
>
>Please help me, 
>I'm just another idiotic guy who can't get a tun interface .
>
>The Line :    	pseudo-device   tun  
>
>exists in my Kernel
>
>I also did a          ./MAKEDEV tun0 in /dev 
>and I also compiled about 1000 kernels with different numbers of tun's
>(and also rebooted my machine),
>but 
>		ifconfig tun0
>answered everytime i tried :
>	interface tun does not exist !
>
>Can anybody help me ???   

This was answered in the last few weeks, but here goes - the tun
device is now automagically created when it's used by e.g. ppp.
Before then it does not exist, so ifconfig will not work.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org




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