From: Jon Buller <jonb@paclink.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 23:25:51 -0800

> Can someone tell me why this command:
> 
>    gifconfig gif0 inet 198.145.117.53 206.123.31.102
> 
> produces this output:
> 
>    gifconfig: ioctl (SIOCSIFPHYADDR): no such interface
> 
> when I try to hook up to the 6bone?  netstat -i produces the following
> lines (among others) so I think the interface really exists.

Do you have an ethernet NIC on that machine?
With no MAC address, I could not use gif tunnel device.
As my last try was about 2 months ago, the situation may have been
changed. But I got the same error, IIRC.

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IWAMOTO Toshihiro