Subject: Re: Why I cant see gif tunnels in RC1/i386?
To: Lista de NetBSD Users <list10@sepc.edu.mx>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/30/2002 08:17:54
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:32:50AM -0500, Lista de NetBSD Users wrote:

 > In 1.5.X was too easy to compile custom kernels with tunnels but
 > seems something has changed in 1.6 and I dont know what.

Hm, I think 1.5.x gif tunnels were statically allocated by the kernel.
In 1.6, they are "cloning" devices, so you need to have:

create

as the first thing in your ifconfig.gif* files.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>