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#! rnews 1700 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-lond.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help for Newbie: How to configure tun0 ? Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 16:45:29 +0000 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32CA94A9.41C67EA6@net-tel.co.uk> References: <32C9B2C6.7443@scn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33425 Enoch Wu wrote: > How do I configure tun0 ? In /etc/sysconfig at initialization time or > in a script executed at "runtime" ? Neither. The ppp daemon will configure tun0 (from the information in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf or negotiated in ppp protocol) when it starts. Configuring tun0 from /etc/sysconfig is pointless, but does no harm. > Beside the alias parameter in /sbin/ifconfig, are actions performed by > ifconfig_tun0 > different from those performed by /sbin/ifconfig. No. You can put an 'alias' keyword in /etc/sysconfig too if you really want it, though your configuration does not look right at all. > 10.0.2.15 is my IP address for SLiRP connection, also a SLiRP alias for > my computer. > 10.0.2.2 is SLiRP's alias for ISP's host address. > 204.122.16.40 is ISP's real host address. Your machine shouldn't need/want to know this.