From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 28 11:25:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from light.imasy.or.jp (light.imasy.or.jp [202.227.24.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E6237B401 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:25:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by light.imasy.or.jp (8.11.3+3.4W/8.11.3/light) with UUCP id f6SIOjl07432; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 03:24:45 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from peace.mahoroba.org (IDENT:37Oj1wndIvRfoZntAoNpA4MwsZExDMlAwjAjuXhSiTOyFrKPLp5M6pgGKwOPE9eW@peace.mahoroba.org [2001:200:301:0:200:f8ff:fe05:3eae]) (authenticated as ume with CRAM-MD5) by mail.mahoroba.org (8.11.4/8.11.4/chaos) with ESMTP/inet6 id f6SIOEg20874; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 03:24:14 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 03:24:10 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20010729.032410.92501918.ume@mahoroba.org> To: henk@home.cg.nu Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device gif not working anymore? From: Hajimu UMEMOTO In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: xcite1.38> Mew version 1.95b119 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 =?iso-2022-jp?B?KBskQjJWMWMbKEIp?= X-PGP-Public-Key: http://www.imasy.org/~ume/publickey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 0C 53 FC 5D D0 37 91 05 D0 B3 EF 36 9B 6A BC X-URL: http://www.imasy.org/~ume/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 19:50:32 +0200 >>>>> "Henk Wevers" said: henk> pseudo-device gif 4 # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling Recentry, gif cloning was MFC'ed. You don't need number of interfaces anymore. Please refer your GENERIC. henk> I did get the following message. henk> gifconfig: interface gif0 does not exist henk> ifconfig: interface gif0 does not exist henk> route: writing to routing socket: File exists You need gif creation first like `ifconfig gifN create'. It is done automatically by rc.network. Please see /usr/src/UPDATING. +20010724: + The gif(4) interface has been converted to use cloning + rather then allocating a static number of devices a compile + time. If you use gif interfaces and configure them by any + method other then setting standard variables in /etc/rc.conf + you will need to update your system to create devices with + "ifconfig gifX create" before attempting to configure them. + + See the ifconfig(8) man page and /etc/rc.network for more + information. henk> Real strange gifconfig did work with an world from a few days ago. Though gifconfig is still there, it is obsoleted by ifconfig. You can do `ifconfig gifN tunnel me her'. -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@bisd.hitachi.co.jp ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message