Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:32:51 -0700 (MST) From: "John E. Hein" <jhein@timing.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/78605: ppp man page errors Message-ID: <200503082232.j28MWp4I053073@gromit.timing.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200503082240.j28Me2KB075824@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 78605
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: ppp man page errors
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 08 22:40:02 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John E. Hein
>Release: FreeBSD -current, 5.x, 4.x
>Organization:
Timing Solutions
>Environment:
System:
FreeBSD
>Description:
The ppp man page refers to 'pseudo-device tun N'. The 'N' is not
supported in 4.x and causes config errors in 5.x
It also refers the using MAKEDEV for tun devices. This still
applies to 4.x, but not 5.x
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
For 6.x & 5.x (4.x still can have the MAKEDEV info):
Index: ppp.8.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /base/FreeBSD-CVS/src/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.320
diff -u -r1.320 ppp.8.m4
--- ppp.8.m4 13 Feb 2005 23:45:52 -0000 1.320
+++ ppp.8.m4 8 Mar 2005 22:29:42 -0000
@@ -446,28 +446,11 @@
.It
Your kernel must {include} a tunnel device (the GENERIC kernel includes
one by default).
-If it does not, or if you require more than one tun
-interface, you will need to rebuild your kernel with the following line in
-your kernel configuration file:
+If it does not you will need to rebuild your kernel with the
+following line in your kernel configuration file:
.Pp
-.Dl pseudo-device tun N
+.Dl pseudo-device tun
.Pp
-where
-.Ar N
-is the maximum number of
-.Em PPP
-connections you wish to support.
-.It
-Check your
-.Pa /dev
-directory for the tunnel device entries
-.Pa /dev/tunN ,
-where
-.Sq N
-represents the number of the tun device, starting at zero.
-If they do not exist, you can create them by running "sh ./MAKEDEV tunN".
-This will create tun devices 0 through
-.Ar N .
.It
Make sure that your system has a group named
.Dq network
>Release-Note:
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