tap interface, bridging and freebsd 5.3

[Ruben de Groot]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:18:55PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli typed:
> Andrea Riela wrote:
> 
> >but I don't see a tap interface in /dev or with ifconfig ...
> 
> You won't see any network interface in /dev; just run ifconfig -a and
> check: you won't find any of the listed devices in /dev.

That's right; they live in /dev/net/ :

> ifconfig -l
rl0 plip0 lo0 tun0 ppp0
> ls -l /dev/net
total 0
crw-------  1 root  wheel  253,   3 Feb 12 07:23 lo0
crw-------  1 root  wheel  253,   2 Feb 12 07:23 plip0
crw-------  1 root  wheel  253,   5 Feb 12 07:23 ppp0
crw-------  1 root  wheel  253,   1 Feb 12 07:23 rl0
crw-------  1 root  wheel  253,   4 Feb 12 07:23 tun0

Ruben