Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am trying to create tap devices on
the host machine using the command:  sudo ip tuntap add mode tap
br0p0  but I get the following error message:  Object "tuntap"
is unknown, try "ip help".   What should I do? I am working on
Ubuntu 10.04  share|improve this question  1 Answer 1  up vote 9
down vote accepted  Your command is correct, the problem is your
version of ip is lacking support for tuntap. In Ubuntu 10.04 you
will need to use tunctl unfortunately, or else time for a dist-
upgrade! tuntap support was added to IP from Maverick (Ubuntu
10.10).  You can verify this by doing ip help and looking at the
line that looks like:  where OBJECT := { link | addr | addrlabel
| route | rule | neigh | ntable | tunnel | tuntap | maddr |
mroute | monitor | xfrm }  If you don't see tuntap, you're going
to be needing tunctl I'm afraid!  You would use tunctl -p -t
br0p0 for a TAP interface or tunctl -n -t br0p0 to create a TUN
interface. Then obviously the usual ifconfig/router commands to
get th