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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.interserv.com!news From: Enoch Wu <enochw@scn.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help for Newbie: How to configure tun0 ? Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 12:39:50 -0800 Organization: InterServ News Service Lines: 40 Message-ID: <32CC1D16.5E77@scn.org> References: <32C9B2C6.7443@scn.org> <32CA94A9.41C67EA6@net-tel.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ralph.ci.seattle.wa.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33523 Andrew Gordon wrote: > > 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. Hi, I have 3 more questions: 1. What about /sbin/route add x.x.x.x y.y.y.y versus the command in user-PPP "add x.x.x.x m.m.m.m y.y.y.y" ? Is user-PPP's "add" command an alternative to /sbin/route ? 2. Can x.x.x.x and y.y.y.y have different network addresses ? 3. Is m.m.m.m a mask for x.x.x.x or is it a mask for y.y.y.y ? Thanks in advance. --EW