From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 31 9:18:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D31237B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:18:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from diana.northnetworks.ca (att-ws20.switchview.com [216.13.70.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D93943EA9 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Received: from northnetworks.ca ([192.168.0.250]) by diana.northnetworks.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBVHINL23458; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:18:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Message-ID: <3E11D11D.1040306@northnetworks.ca> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:17:17 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Penn Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual interface support? References: <20021231161646.GA508@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For testing purposes, I have used the gif interface several times. I know man(8) gif states it is a tunnelling interface, but from stations on the network, the interface can be seen all the same. (I normally use the gif interface for simulating several interfaces for IPFW configuration). Don't know if it will help, but I thought I'd try anyway. Steve Jeff Penn wrote: >Does freebsd support virtual interfaces? (i.e. a network interface not >associated with a hardware interface). > >My system is running 4.7 release with only a dialup ppp POTS connection, >which is a bit limiting if you want to learn about networking. Ideally >I would like to set up a private network address on a virtual interface. > >The html documentation supplied with apache2 appears to require the >server to be running for browsing (many of the links appear broken). > >If this support is provided by netgraph I would appreciate some pointers >on setting this up. > >thanks >Jeff > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message