From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 25 10:40:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interware.hu (mail.interware.hu [195.70.32.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C8D37B402 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:40:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from victoria-221.budapest.interware.hu ([195.70.63.221] helo=elischer.org) by mail.interware.hu with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 14LrJG-0004vZ-00; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:39:50 +0100 Message-ID: <3A7072EA.5107A85E@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:39:38 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maksim Yevmenkin Cc: "Koster, K.J." , 'Suma H R' , Brahma Naidu Golla , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pseudo ethernet interface References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B57@l04.research.kpn.com> <3A705B4D.C0D2E678@digisle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > > > > Is it possible to provide pseudo ethernet interfaces? > > > Can we associate an IP and MAC address with a psuedo ethernet > > > interface > > > to facilitate data packet transmission & reception through that? > > yes. > > > > If so, how does it work? > > > Pointers to any documentation in this regard will be appreciated. > > > > > $ man tap > $ man ng_ether > > > Have you looked at the tun device? there is a pseudo ethernet netgraph node available from: http://www.riss-telecom.ru/~vitaly/ > > this is IP only. > > thanks, > emax > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ from Perth, presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message