On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:58:49PM +0100, Peter Nelson wrote:
> I seem to have a problem with kernel 2.3.99-pre8 with ethertap as a module.
>
> tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FD:00:00:00:00
> inet addr:192.168.10.2 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> Interrupt:5
>
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 36, 16 May 19 21:04 /dev/tap0
>
> cat: /dev/tap0: No such device
>
> Any ideas? :)
You probably forgot to compile with CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV. Without it ethertap
can be only accessed through PF_NETLINK sockets.
-Andi
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