Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:57:31 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get gif device working? Message-ID: <20011206175731.H82299@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <fm4v0ukt8fh2nsp3bf8v600f84vjbphbt7@4ax.com> References: <fm4v0ukt8fh2nsp3bf8v600f84vjbphbt7@4ax.com>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:49:53PM +0000, freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com wrote: > I'm trying to do some IPSec between a FreeBSD box and > a hardware VPN device, with little success. However I > just read (on the daemonnews site) that for tunnel mode > I need to use the gif device. Yet I cannot get the > thing to work. > > If I try "gifconfig gif0 inet src addr" > then I get the error "gifconfig: interface gif0 does not exist" > > This with the generic kernel. > > I must be missing something extremely obvious here but > I can't see what it is. MAKEDEV doesn't know anything about it. > This seems to be a common misunderstanding of how IPSEC works, and it comes from some widely distributed IPSEC FAQ, I think. You don't need a gif(4) for IPSEC to work on FreeBSD. Perhaps, old versions of FreeBSD required this, but doesn't now. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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