"Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." wrote:
Ralph Clark wrote:

> 3) if you elected to support ethertap as a module:
>     i) add these lines to /etc/conf.modules (or /etc/modules.conf, depending on
> your system):
>         alias tap0      ethertap
>         options tap0    -o tap0 unit=0
>     ii) run depmod -a to 'register' the modules
>

Ralph,

Thanks. I figured most of this out already and it all seems to be
working, but I do not use the "options" line above. Do you know the
consequences of leaving this out?

No. All thismodues stuff is just 'magic spells' to me. I blame poor documentation.
I looked at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ethertap.txt and
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ethertap.c but couldn't find any reference to
those options. Is there more documentation somewhere?
You must be kidding. All I know about ethertap is in the notes posted by Michael Jagdis to this list shortly after the functionality was added.
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