Re: [SLUG] tap0 network device

[Ken Foskey <foskey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 23:40, Crossfire wrote:
> Ken Foskey was once rumoured to have said:
> > 
> > I am having problems connecting my laptop up.  I have a tap0 interface
> > on ifconfig with the wrong IP address and I cannot figure out how to get
> > rid of it to bring up my proper network settings.
> > 
> > Of course ifdown tap0 says huh??? in computer speak.
> 
> tap/tun devices are created by programs using the generic tap/tun or
> ethertap interfaces.
> 
> You should be able to completely remove tap0 by finding the task thats
> created it, and stopping/killing it.
> 
> Of course, as Jeff suggested, ifconfig <if> down will always work.

Jeff is the man (again).   I notice on reboot that diald was running, 
removed that and guess what the whole thing started working.

The tulip network driver is very flaky and I think this was more my
problem.  I am trying to upgrade my kernel but getting strange results. 
I have just had a clean update of woody so I will make clean and build
the new kernel from scratch.

Thanks
KenF