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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:42:37 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>
Cc:        brian@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: kern/17442: 4.0-STABLE: cannot set up tun devices 
Message-ID:  <200003180142.BAA02985@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>  of "Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:06:00 PST." <14546.40504.250975.626349@hbo.isi.edu> 

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>   brian> Tun interfaces are now created on the fly. If you run ppp,
>   brian> tun0 will appear... if you run ``ppp -unit 100'', tun100 will
>   brian> appear.
> 
> Great, but I do not run ppp. We use the tun interface for a userland
> IPIP encapsulation daemon. How do I get them to appear then? Simply
> start doing ioctls?

Easier than that, just open /dev/tunX

> Lars
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>               Information Sciences Institute
> http://www.isi.edu/~larse/             University of Southern California

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !




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