[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] tun/tap in linux 2.4.18

[Jani Monoses]

> 
> I'm trying to configure tun/tap interfaces. I have
> followed the instruction in the tuntap.txt that came
> with linux documentations. Inside the /dev/ directory
> I can see tanX(X = 0,1,3) and tun devices,but when I

/dev/net/tun is the device

> try to configure the devices it gives me the ff errors
> 
> ifconfig tap <ip address>
> SIOCSIFADDR:: No such device
> tap0: unknown interface: No such device

Do you have tun configured in your kernel?

And do not manually configure it - you can't just ifconfig it up.
First a ioctl needs to be called on dev/net/tun only then can you
use tap0 ,1,2 etc.

But let the simhost demo do all this in proj/unixsim
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