On Wed, 03 Sep 2003, James Yonan wrote: > One of the nice things about the --ifconfig option is that it lets you set TUN > adapter endpoint addresses (i.e. the virtual IP addresses for each end of the > tunnel) in a platform independent manner -- OpenVPN then translates the > --ifconfig option to the appropriate ifconfig command for your platform.
> What I need right now in order to make the TAP version of --ifconfig work > correctly, is the correct ifconfig command syntax for setting the IP address > and netmask of a TAP device, on all the OSes which OpenVPN supports. I've > already coded templates for Linux and Windows, but I still need to know the > appropriate ifconfig syntax for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS > X, with respect to setting the IP/netmask on a TAP device. ## FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE: ifconfig tap0 inet 10.11.12.42 netmask 255.0.0.0 up (inet appears to be optional, so the Linux syntax, "ifconfig tap0 10.11.12.42 netmask 255.0.0.0 up", should also work. Untested on FreeBSD 5.x.) ## Solaris: Does Solaris support "tap"-style ethernet frame tunneling devices at all? How? Anyone got that to work? The tun-1.1 driver only installs a "tun" driver and doesn't claim ethernet bridging on Solaris. ./openvpn --secret /home/ma/openvpn-tap-discardme.key --dev tap0 \ [remote info] 4: Can't open /dev/tap: No such file or directory (errno=2) Trying --dev-node /dev/tun and --dev-type tap results in: 4: Can't set multiplexor id: No such device or address (errno=6) Did I miss anything? -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95
