On 10.03.14 at 23:30, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > 3: tap0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc > > > ... > > > I do not understand why the tap0 profile is listed as DOWN. (# ip link > > set dev tap0 up does nothing more) > > > > it's not down. it's UP, only NO-CARRIER. but for a tap device you also need > a user-space program to handle it. > what do you want to accomplish? do you perhaps need a veth device? > > > -- > damjan
Actually, there was a "state DOWN" in the full command output, which is what matters. -- jlk
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