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From: "John E. Hein" <jhein@timing.com>
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Subject: ppp man page errors
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>Number:         78605
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       ppp man page errors
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    jcamou
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 08 22:40:02 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Mon May 02 07:29:40 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Mon May 02 07:29:40 GMT 2005
>Originator:     John E. Hein
>Release:        FreeBSD -current, 5.x, 4.x
>Organization:
Timing Solutions
>Environment:
System:

	FreeBSD

>Description:
	The ppp man page refers to 'pseudo-device tun N'.  The 'N' is not
    supported in 4.x and causes config errors in 5.x

	It also refers the using MAKEDEV for tun devices.  This still
    applies to 4.x, but not 5.x

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

    For 6.x & 5.x (4.x still can have the MAKEDEV info):
	
Index: ppp.8.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /base/FreeBSD-CVS/src/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.320
diff -u -r1.320 ppp.8.m4
--- ppp.8.m4	13 Feb 2005 23:45:52 -0000	1.320
+++ ppp.8.m4	8 Mar 2005 22:29:42 -0000
@@ -446,28 +446,11 @@
 .It
 Your kernel must {include} a tunnel device (the GENERIC kernel includes
 one by default).
-If it does not, or if you require more than one tun
-interface, you will need to rebuild your kernel with the following line in
-your kernel configuration file:
+If it does not you will need to rebuild your kernel with the
+following line in your kernel configuration file:
 .Pp
-.Dl pseudo-device tun N
+.Dl pseudo-device tun
 .Pp
-where
-.Ar N
-is the maximum number of
-.Em PPP
-connections you wish to support.
-.It
-Check your
-.Pa /dev
-directory for the tunnel device entries
-.Pa /dev/tunN ,
-where
-.Sq N
-represents the number of the tun device, starting at zero.
-If they do not exist, you can create them by running "sh ./MAKEDEV tunN".
-This will create tun devices 0 through
-.Ar N .
 .It
 Make sure that your system has a group named
 .Dq network


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->jcamou  
Responsible-Changed-By: jcamou 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Apr 25 04:00:43 GMT 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Take it. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=78605 
State-Changed-From-To: open->patched  
State-Changed-By: jcamou 
State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 28 22:36:04 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
Patch committed to HEAD with some changes, thanks for 
the submission. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=78605 
State-Changed-From-To: patched->closed  
State-Changed-By: jcamou 
State-Changed-When: Mon May 2 07:28:47 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
The changes had been merged from current to RELENG_5. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=78605 
>Unformatted:
