Hi,
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:13:10PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> So, you should not need to do the ifconfig at all unless you're
> interested in tap functionality or there's other odd
> frobbing going on.
You need ifconfig to set an IP address :-) - which might be considered
"odd frobbing", but people seem to value it somehow ;-)
In addition to that, on OpenBSD and NetBSD, Tunnel interfaces stay around
even after /dev/tun is closed, so if you want to be sure that no old
configuration lingers around and messes with your tunnel, the "safe"
approach is to do "ifconfig tun0 destroy ; ifconfig tun0 create" before
IP/IPv6 configuration.
*That* part is easily understood - the interesting question is why OpenVPN
does do_ifconfig/open_tun for OpenBSD and open_tun/do_ifconfig for NetBSD.
(As a side note: are you running an OpenBSD system and could test the
OpenVPN IPv6 payload stuff there?)
gert
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