On 5 May 2015 at 09:35, Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 May 2015, at 14:50, Justin Cormack <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have sent a pull request to fix the requires root issue - it was >> trying to bring the interface up which requires root, so long as it is >> already up this is fine, I use: >> >> sudo ip tuntap add dev tap0 mode tap user justin && sudo ip link set dev >> tap0 up >> >> to create interfaces. The disappearing thing is the interface going >> down again, it is not a persistence thing, as it is not actually >> removed. >> > > This almost works for me, except that I still get a permissions error > since the `set_up_and_running` ioctl call checks for IFF_MULTICAST and > IFF_BROADCAST in addition to IFF_UP and IFF_RUNNING. These aren't > set when I create a persistent tun with `otun add tun10 tun`, but it > shouldn't matter much if those aren't set. Any particular reason that > we need them?
Odd, I can't replicate that, in fact I can't create any interfaces which don't have multicast and broadcast set. On the other hand, IFF_UP is the only flag that actually matters at this point, so just testing for that would be sufficient. Justin _______________________________________________ MirageOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel
