Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:58:17 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ruben de Groot <ruben@bzerk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brooks@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gifconfig: interface gif0 does not exist Message-ID: <20011122125817.C48048@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20011122112401.A20438@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20011122112401.A20438@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:24:01AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up a VPN between two routers on a private network. > Both routers are FreeBSD 4.4-stable and have "pseudo-device gif" in > their kernel-config. > > When I issue the command: > > router1# gifconfig gif0 inet 192.168.179.40 192.168.179.120 > > I get the errormessage: > > gifconfig: interface gif0 does not exist > > I read the manpages gif(4), gifconfig(8) and LINT, but didn't find any clues. > Am I forgetting something? For example, is "options INET6" mandatory? I'm > not using IPv6, so I commented that out of the kernel config file. > You need to "ifconfig create" it first. Have a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf on how to do it automatically. Hint: search for "gif_interfaces". Then put the necessary lines into your /etc/rc.conf. Brooks, could you please document these knobs in the rc.conf(5) manpage? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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