On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:54:57PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/10/12 16:45, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:49:58PM +0200, Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu > > wrote: > > > > > I use tun for ppp and gprs connections. > > > > A lil bit elaboration with details will help I am sure. How exactly do you > > go about it? > > > > Thanks. > > > > If I get enough info I promise to send a man page patch. That is why I ask. > > There's nothing unclear about: > > The tun driver provides a network interface pseudo-device. Packets sent > to this interface can be read by a userland process and processed as de- > sired. Packets written by the userland process are injected back into > the kernel networking subsystem. > > It's concise, but that's the man page style... the faq would probably > be the place for lengthier discussion if it's needed. > > Maybe there's a place for tun(4) to refer to ppp(8), but then you'd > have to mention ssh(1), sshd(8), and who knows what else... You are right about normal man pages found on UNIX.
But OpenBSD man pages are a tad different and stand out. :-) Right now I am not in a position to concisely and at the same time clearly and explicitly put things. But with your excellent explanation I am sure I will get there one of these days... Thanks. regards, Girish
