On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:10:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Luigi, > >Thanks for response, the vmnet/tap stuff sounds like neat stuff. After reading >the description of tap (from the vtun site), the system seems to make a lot of >sense.However, I'm not sure how vmnet comes into play here - what purpose does >it serve, shouldn't I just be able to read from the /dev/tap0 and bridge >between tap0 and fxp0?
It's just a naming issue, vmnetX is the network-device name of /dev/tapX. (the ip-equivalent thing, "tun", has the same name for both the network device and the device entry in the filesystem. As a matter of fact the latter is totally arbitrary so "tun" perhaps should be called "vmnet"...) Packets written by a process to /dev/tapX are seen by the network layer as coming from vmnetX; packets sent by the network layer to vmnetX can be read by a process from /dev/tapX > net.link.ether.bridge_cfg: fxp0:0,tap0:0 tap1:1 bge0:1 here you have to use the names vmnet0 and vmnet1 cheers luigi _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"