On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:47:53PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > From: "Bernd Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:49:18PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > But am I to understand that running slattach creates the sl0 device?? by > something like 'ifconfig sl0 create'? > Or is slattach just loading the module which makes sl0 appear?
slattach creates and removes the device. It doesn't make much sense to have a slip device alone IMO. [51]cicely13# kldstat -v | grep sl 88 if_sl [52]cicely13# ifconfig sl0 ifconfig: interface sl0 does not exist Exit 1 [53]cicely13# slattach -l /dev/cuaa0 /var/run/slattach.cuaa0.pid [54]cicely13# ifconfig sl0 sl0: flags=8011<UP,POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 552 [55]cicely13# kill `cat /var/run/slattach.cuaa0.pid` [56]cicely13# ifconfig sl0 ifconfig: interface sl0 does not exist Exit 1 -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"