On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Mr Cornish Rex wrote:
cr> Uner make menuconfig
cr> choose
cr> Network Device Support
cr> then
cr> Ethertap Network Tap
cr>
cr> then you do not need to use slip.
cr>
cr> If you do not have this option in your kernel then you can use slip with no probs.
cr>
Also, I believe you need to select the, 'Prompt for development and/or
incomplete code/drivers' option as well, which could be why you never
found it in the network section.
cr> On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, guanchen KHOO wrote:
cr> > I have tried with both kernel 2.2.13 and 2.2.14 and I cannot find the
cr> > choice to select for ethertap using either "make config" or "make
cr> > menuconfig". I finally modified the /usr/src/linux/.config file manually
cr> > by adding either the line "CONFIG_ETHERTAP=y" or "CONFIG_ETHERTAP=m".
cr> >
cr> > With the module option, I could install the ethertap.o module by hand, and
cr> > see in /proc/net/dev that I have lo, eth0 and tap0. But when I tried
cr> > /sbin/ifconfig /dev/tap0 192.168.0.1 I get the error:-
cr> >
cr> > SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device
cr> > /dev/tap0: unknown interface: Operation not supported by device
cr> >
cr> > I have /dev/tap0 (made with mknod /dev/tap0 c 36 16) as ls -al /dev/tap0
cr> > shows
cr> >
cr> > 0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 36, 16 Jun 4 20:52 /dev/tap0
cr> >
cr> >
cr> > When I make a kernel with "CONFIG_ETHERTAP=y" I could not even see the
cr> > tap0 line in /proc/net/dev; and /sbin/ifconfig shows the same error.
cr> >
cr> > I would be grateful if someone can tell me where I have gone wrong.
cr> >
cr> >
cr>
cr>
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