> Sorry to chime in here Lourdes, but I still had to mknod the
> tap devices.
> Maybe he just needs to do that?
No apologies please. I'm far from perfect. :)
I haven't had to use mknod here. If all machines/installs were equal Mike
would have no support troubles at all.
Adding the dev entries would be the next step if the system did not
recognize the tap devices and either a distribution kernel or a kernel with
known ethertap and slip support.
The appropriate places to look for ethertap configuration info are in the
kernel source (usually installed at /usr/src/linux) documentation files
'Documentation/networking/ethertap.txt' and 'Documentation/devices.txt'.
Since not everyone has the kernel documentation:
There are 16 allowable ethertap devices. They are character special files
with major device number 36 minor device numbers 16 through 31.
As you go up each device (/dev/tap# increases from 0 to 15) you also
increase the minor node (the last number increases from 16 to 31).
--
# first ethertap device
mknod /dev/tap0 c 36 16
mknod /dev/tap1 c 36 17
mknod /dev/tap2 c 36 18
...
# 16th ethertap device
mknod /dev/tap15 c 36 31
--
Lourdes
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