On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:36:36AM -0500, Brad Ely wrote: > The man page (and usage message) for ifconfig on 3.8-beta seems to > be out of date with respect to the current behavior when deleting > a tunnel. > > # ifconfig tun0 create > # ifconfig tun0 > tun0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 3000 > groups: tun > # ifconfig tun0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 > # ifconfig tun0 > tun0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> mtu 3000 > groups: tun > inet 10.0.0.1 --> 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xff000000 > # #NOTE: deletetunnel doesn't work > # ifconfig tun0 deletetunnel > ifconfig: SIOCDIFPHYADDR: Invalid argument > # #NOTE: but delete does > # ifconfig tun0 delete > # ifconfig tun0 > tun0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> mtu 3000 > groups: tun > # ifconfig tun0 destroy > # ifconfig tun0 > tun0: no such interface > #
"deletetunnel" is for gif(4) and gre(4) devices only. "delete" is the correct way to delete ip addresses for tun(4) devices. (you can thank claudio jeker for that info, because i didn't know either) the ifconfig(8) manpage has been updated to hopefully make this clearer... jmc
