Hello Milan , Is tap device only available as module ?
If Not , How do I do this for a compiled in version ?
Tia , JimL
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Milan P. Stanic wrote:
> 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...
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