Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 23:06:56 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: groggy@iname.com Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tunX = RUNNING, NOT! Message-ID: <199810032206.XAA00567@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Oct 1998 01:44:03 -0800." <Pine.BSF.3.96.981002013655.919A-100000@abc.xyz.net>
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> > i'm ending up with useless > tunX (ppp) devices on a dialup > server. they disappear if i > reboot the machine, but otherwise, > i can't get rid of bogus > > tunX: flags=8050<POINTTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > lines in my ifconfig -a output. > > they should say: > > tunX: flags=8010<POINTTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > what causes this? and what can i do about it? Check out ``15.1.2. Building a ppp ready kernel'' in the handbook. > it's causing me to run out of available > tunX devices. 2.2.7 running ppp -alias. The RUNNING flag just indicates that the interface has been used before. It doesn't prevent the device from being opened again. > i have a feeling it's from > bad connects/disconnects ... The only thing that should prevent a tun device from being used is if another process has it open. Try running ``fstat /dev/tunX'' to see what's upsetting things. -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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