> From: Rogier R. Mulhuijzen > To: Naga R Narayanaswamy > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 8:26 PM > Subject: Re: Bridging and 'pseudo-device tap' and PPPoE > > At 07:39 3-1-2002 -0500, you wrote: > >> Hello: >> >> I want to create pseudo ethernet devices to simulate many NICs on >> a PC. In Solaris, we can do "ifconfig hme0:1 10.1.1.1 up" >> hme0:2 etc to create logival interfaces. I am trying to do a similar thing >> on FreeBSD. But after searching the archives, I find that I have to use >> tap device. Is there any other way than the approach I am using below.
> Doing that on Solaris gives you additional MAC addresses? No, but I can configure my own MAC address as in freebsd by changing the mac address using ifconfig lladdr option. > I've used bridging with tap devices plenty. Works fine for me. What bridging method do you use with tap device ? option BRIDGE in kernel method OR netgraph bridging method? > TAP devices don't actually work unless there's a process that has the /dev/ entry > opened and reads from it (well, they'll buffer a little). So, just let a process like "cat /dev/tap0" read the tap device, I assume. Thanks Naga To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
