On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:53 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 15:44 -0400, robert mckennon wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:09 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. >> > >> > Sorry the device has to be created. Most applications will do this step >> > for you and others, makes one lazy and some what ignorant :) >> > >> > Not well documented, no mention in man page :( >> > >> > ip tuntap help >> > Usage: ip tuntap { add | del } [ dev PHYS_DEV ] >> > [ mode { tun | tap } ] [ user USER ] [ group GROUP ] >> > [ one_queue ] [ pi ] [ vnet_hdr ] >> > >> > If your creating a tunnel thats better documented, man page has a >> > section ip tunnel ( ~ line 1234 ip tunnel - tunnel configuration ) or >> > for abbreviated usage instructions command line via >> > ip tunnel help >> > >> > Tunnel References >> > http://www.techonia.com/create-tunnel-interface-linux >> > http://kovyrin.net/2006/03/17/how-to-create-ip-ip-tunnel-between-freebsd-and-linux/ >> > >> > >> > -- >> >> I looked at all the above info, and I don't think this applies in my >> case. Other software is creating the tunnel, > > If its creating the tunnel then the device interface should exist. If > both ifconfig -a and ip link do not show the interface, regardless of it > being up or down, it does not exist yet. > >> I just need to get the >> tap0 up and the Hercules software will create the bridge. > > That doesn't make sense, software creates the tunnel, but you have to > manually bring it up, and then the software will create the bridge. > > Seems rather odd, and if its created, it should exist, and could easily > bring up with ifconfig or ip, just as any interface. Unless for some > reason it's not tun0/tap0 but tun1/tap1 or other. But then ones before > should exist, unless they did when the others were created and removed > since. > >> I've never >> had an issue with this in the past, but this is the first time running >> the host OS on 64bit. > > Lets back up, does the kernel have tun/tap support? Is the tun module > loaded, or compiled into kernel? >
When I do a lsmod: r...@slack-ibm:/raid/hercules# lsmod |grep tun tun 13824 0 And I wouldn't have posted this to the list if I hadn't already spent several hours searching for an answer. Rob. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
