Re: question regarding tap/tun devices

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:33:32PM +0200, Goran Gajic wrote:
I'm running 7.0-CURRENT build Thu May 25 23:17:10 CEST 2006 GENERIC config.
While playing with dynamips emulator which uses tap I've noticed that
ifconifg tun0 create or ifconfig tap0 create doesn't work (this doesn't
have anything to do with emulator which works great).

These interfaces don't use the network interface cloning interface and
thus can not be created with ifconfig. This should be fixed, but the
/dev based cloning hackes they use make this difficult.

-- Brooks

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