On 13-Oct-2000 Tuan Hoang wrote: > Under Red Hat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.16-3 and all the latest RPM's as of > 10/13/2000, I did the following: > > modprobe ethertap > mknod /dev/tap0 c 36 16 > mknod /dev/tap1 c 36 17 > mknod /dev/tap2 c 36 18 > mknod /dev/tap3 c 36 19 > > I'm able to bring tap0 up using the usual "ifconfig tap0 ..." > but I can't bring any others up. How do you bring up the other tap > devices? Is there a kernel boot-time param that I need to set to enable > more than one tap device? Any sysctl to change? Try to add next few lines in /etc/modules.conf alias tap0 ethertap options tap0 -o tap0 unit=0 alias tap1 ethertap options tap1 -o tap1 unit=1 alias tap2 ethertap options tap2 -o tap2 unit=2 etc... Cheers, ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Milan P. Stanic <mps@rns-nis.co.yu> ---------------------------------- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
