[nos-bbs] Problem attaching tun device

[Bob Tenty]

Permissions are OK, I have exactly the same in Ubuntu.
It is something else.

Bob VE3TOK

On 12-02-23 01:43 PM, Michael Curry wrote:
> JNOS version: 2.0i
> OS: Ubuntu 10.10
>
> Problem: When loading autoexec.nos, JNOS complains about my "attach 
> tun" line:
>
> input line: attach tun tun0 1500 0
>
> and this message appears in the log file:
>
> 09:56:16  - unable to setup tunnel
>
> Looking at the source code of tun_attach() in tun.c, this suggests 
> that the tun device is being successfully opened, but that the 
> subsequent ioctl(tunfd,TUNSETIFF,&ifr) call is failing (although no 
> information on the nature of the failure is logged).
>
> The tun device is present, as shown by:
>
> % ls -l /dev/net/tun
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 200 2012-02-13 21:53 /dev/net/tun
>
> This seems to smack of a permissions problem, but the permissions on 
> the device are open, as you can see. Anyone have any thoughts on 
> what's going on and how to work around it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael, KI6TYV
> -- 
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>
>
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