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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:59:55 +0300
From:      Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Alain G. Fabry" <alainfabry@belgacom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: creation of tap interface
Message-ID:  <20071123105953.GJ66812@amilo.cenkes.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071122214158.GA37193@mail.pcextreme.nl>
References:  <20071122214158.GA37193@mail.pcextreme.nl>

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:41:58PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm setting up Qemu, have installed Ubuntu and Gentoo guests on
> FreeBSD host but I would like to get the network interfaces to
> work also.
> 
> I get the following error however when trying to create the tap
> interfaces
> 
> FreeBSD# ifconfig tap create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid
> argument
> 
> What is the problem here?

The command should work as you typed it, but try this:
# kldload if_tap
# ifconfig tap0 create
             ^^^



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