On 03/01/2010 01:54:46 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:13:10PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > So, you should not need to do the ifconfig at all unless you're
> > interested in tap functionality or there's other odd
> > frobbing going on.
>
> You need ifconfig to set an IP address :-) - which might be
> considered
> "odd frobbing", but people seem to value it somehow ;-)
:)
> *That* part is easily understood - the interesting question is why
> OpenVPN
> does do_ifconfig/open_tun for OpenBSD and open_tun/do_ifconfig for
> NetBSD.
>
> (As a side note: are you running an OpenBSD system and could test the
> OpenVPN IPv6 payload stuff there?)
I am, but there's no IPV6 going on so unless there's a test suite
to run (somehow) I couldn't test. It would probably also take
me a while to get to it because at the moment all my OpenBSD boxes
are in production.
Karl <k...@meme.com>
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