tun and SIOCSIFADDR

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, David Gilbert wrote:

> I read in the if_tun manpage that it supports SIOCSIFADDR (such that
> it works with ifconfig).  I like examples, so I search the ifconfig
> source code for SIOCSIFADDR.  None.  Then I search the entire source
> tree.  ppp uses it to set the IPX address.  Obviously SIOCSIFADDR is
> not the preferred way to do this anymore.  Hints?

SIOCSIFADDR/SIOCSIFDSTADDR was deprecated about 10 years ago. See
man 4 netintro /Calls which are now deprecated are .
If you want SIOCSIFADDR/SIOCSIFDSTADDR for tun you need a patch I
have in my tree.
SIOCAIFADDR is what you really want. Look at ppp sources for examples
for example.

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