constant tun interface

[Lev Klimin]

Добрый день, Sergey!

SZ> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:02:23AM +0400,
SZ>  Lev Klimin probably wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have little trouble. I have 4.10-release with ppp ant ipnat. On
>> startup ipnat reload it's rules with interface tun0 in statments which
>> is ppp's device. But before running ppp, there is no tun device in
>> system
>> [8:48:04][~]:garbage# ifconfig
>> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>         inet 195.161.208.151 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 195.161.208.191
>>         ether 00:a0:c9:4b:09:29
>>         media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>
>>         status: active
>> fxp1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>         inet 172.16.0.9 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 172.16.0.15
>>         ether 00:a0:c9:b6:59:a1
>>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>>         status: active
>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
>> ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>> faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>> [8:48:09][~]:garbage# 
>> 
>> Because of lack of tun interface, further ipnat rules don't work. I
>> can reload ipnat then ppp starting, and it's OK. Can I build my
>> kernel to make tun interface on startup sach as ppp interface?

SZ> Maybe you could do some ifconfig(8) magic, but you definitely could use
SZ> ppp's built-in NAT (by inlcuding `nat enable yes' in the config file).
SZ> HTH,
Initialization of ipnat is done earlier than rc.network script is
running. Therefore, I need some other feature. How does ppp and faith
interfaces are in ifconfig in startup? Can I do same thing with tun
interface.



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