Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:30:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <ext-jukka.ukkonen@nokia.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/55917: tun# devices cannot be created in 4.8-STABLE Message-ID: <200308271230.h7RCUGJX039192@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/55917; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <ext-jukka.ukkonen@nokia.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jau@mawit.com Cc: Subject: Re: kern/55917: tun# devices cannot be created in 4.8-STABLE Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:18:07 +0300 Also it should be noted that failing to create the tun# interfaces with ifconfig creates a chicken and egg problem when the devfs becomes the default /dev replacing the current statically created device nodes. Then the only way to make some tun# devices visible in the /dev would be a line like pseudo-device tun 4 # create 4 tunnel devices specifying a predefined number of tun# devices in the kernel config. If the devices were created using ifconfig, there would be no problem, because a new master device could appear automatically in the devfs after the ifconfig create command. -- Cheers, // jau A computer, to print out a fact, will divide, multiply, and subtract. But this output can be no more than debris, if the input was short of exact. -- Gigo
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