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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:48:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
To:        Gao Fei <gaof@public.intercom.com.cn>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Please tell me why
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.970923004655.26423B-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34273D1D.B7481556@public.intercom.com.cn>

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I think you don't have a tunnel device specified in your kernel config.
You need a line, towards the bottom of your kernel config line like:

pseudo-device tun 1

This will let you use tun0 for ppp.

-Joe Clarke

On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Gao Fei wrote:

> when I run ppp, it tells me:
> No tunnel device is available.
> open_tun: No such file or directory
> 
> but /dev/tun0 exits. I run MAKEDEV tun0,
> it still tell me:
> No tunnel device is available.
> open_tun: No such file or directory
> 
> I don't know why?
> 




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