Re: [ECOS] Disabling an host package

[Bart Veer <bartv at ecoscentric dot com>]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch> writes:

    Andrew> The tun interface is a 2.4 thing.
    >> 
    >> Are you sure? According to the documentation I have seen tuntap was
    >> added in the 2.2 days. Does your system have a loadable module
    >> drivers/net/tun.o?
 
    Andrew> lunn@cobra:/lib/modules$ find . -name "*tun*"
    Andrew> lunn@cobra:/lib/modules$ 

    Andrew> No loadable module.

    >> It is possible that things were changed at the header file level
    >> between 2.2 and 2.4. The functionality I need from
    >> if_tun.h is the ioctl TUNSETIFF and the flags IFF_TAP and IFF_NO_PI.
    >> Could you do a quick rgrep through /usr/include to see if these are
    >> #define'd in another header?

    Andrew> lunn@cobra:/usr/include$ find . -type f | xargs grep TUNSETIFF
    Andrew> lunn@cobra:/usr/include$ find . -type f | xargs grep IFF_TAP         
    Andrew> lunn@cobra:/usr/include$ find . -type f | xargs grep IFF_NO_PI

    Andrew> Nothing in the header files. I also checker the kernel
    Andrew> sources for 2.2.17 which i had lying around. Its not a
    Andrew> standard part of that kernel.

OK, I'll have to make the tap support conditional on the presence of
<linux/if_tun.h>. I'll try to do that in the next day or so. You would
still be able to use a real ethernet interface, assuming a spare one
is available.

Bart

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