Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:56:35 +0200 From: Gunter Loos <Gul@ngonet.be> To: Red Barchetta <paradox@pegasus.rutgers.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user ppp question Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960730055635.006a7364@ppp-gw>
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At 21:06 29/07/96 EDT, you wrote: >Hello- > >I asked a few days ago if anyone knew what could cause errors of the form >My modem is on COM2 (/dev/cuaa1), but I have created tun0 in the /dev >directory using MAKEDEV because I have found no indication that it should be >tun1. Does the number of the tunnel device need to correspond to that of the >com port? Nope. But it should have been compiled into the kernel: pseudo device tun... Just creating it in /dev doesn't help. PPP just takes the first free tunnel device to set up the connection. > >Also, should tun0 be set up in /etc/sysconfig? I get the same error messages >whther or not it is. If I remember right, for the few days that I ran >2.1.0R, I didn't have tun0 set up but user ppp worked just fine (at least I >got a ppp on hostname> prompt). I never did, it always worked.. Gul.
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