On Friday, September 24, 1999 2:50 AM, S.Toms [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
Hi:
...
> Correct, it is slightly different, I havn't been able to figure out
> if
> it was built with the fallback to slp option yet. Though if you read
> further, I believe it was, due to the results I'm receiving now.
...
> I by luck, stumbled across the 'dynamic' switch in the man pages,
> added
> it, now everything works as it should. Let me mention again that its
> the
> same config files from 0.16 and yet it worked there. Was this a new
> option? I don't believe it was. Or did I just get lucky somehow?
> When I'm connected and I run ifconfig as you mentioned above, it
> only
> shows my eth0, lo, ppp0 and slp0 devices. There is no mention of the
> tap0
> device anywhere.
> When I view the log in dctrl with verbose I see the SIOC alert on
> the
> tap0 and ppp0 but in the status bar, I see it showing the 'Interface
> tap0' which then changes to ppp0 after it connects. But having it not
> show
> under ifconfig makes me believe it may be falling back to the slp
> after
> all.
...
On Friday, September 24, 1999 3:49 AM, S.Toms [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
...
> didn't
> show tap0, well, disregard that, when the connection isn't up, is
> when
> tap0 shows . When I make a connection, tap0 changes to ppp0 about the
> same
> time that it changes in the dctrl status bar.
> What exactly are those SIOC things anyway, I know everyone says
> there
> normal, but they certainly don't display a positive response :)
...
Really got me puzzled until I noticed your second message. I forgot to
mention the switch from tap0 to ppp0 so it was easy to overlook.
The slip interface is also puzzling me. Unless you configured it
manually, it shouldn't be there. Maybe that is a remaining from the
previous behaviour but I doubt, I never saw it before, even when
copying configuration files without change.
I think that "dynamic" is out for a while, but I can't remember if its
as old as 0.16.
New kernel 2.2.x code layer for net interfaces is unified and tries to
deal with all in the same manner. The ppp0 and tap0 aren't physical
interfaces so some commands will fail, hence the SIOC* messages, you
shouldn't worry since these _are_ normal under the circumstances.
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