python: meshtastic --tunnel -> Read TUN in a Thread failure

Hi,

I’m trying to setip the tunnel for test purposes. I got an error about ifconfig.

I did the test on a VM Debian 10 and on a VM Ubuntu.

Followed the steps from pages:

After a french install of ubuntu here are the command I used as root:

$apt install python3-pip
$pip3 install --upgrade pytap2
$pip3 install --upgrade meshtastic

$ls -l /dev/ttyUSB*
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Sep  4 03:00 /dev/ttyUSB0

$meshtastic -h
(I get in return all help text)

$meshtastic --tunnel
Connected to radio
INFO:root:Starting IP to mesh tunnel (you must be root for this *pre-alpha* feature to work).  Mesh members:
INFO:root:Node !f244c500 has IP address 10.115.197.0
INFO:root:Node !f244c480 has IP address 10.115.196.128
sh: 1: ifconfig: not found
Aborting due to:

After putting in debug I can identify the issue at line https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-python/blob/8380e57fa060b4cd5a46cfce7ec4fcc99019c3ed/meshtastic/tunnel.py#L102

If I do a small test.py

File

from pytap2 import TapDevice
tun = TapDevice(name="mesh")
tun.up()
tun.ifconfig(address="192.168.4.2", netmask="255.255.255.0", mtu=200)

Test

root@abeilleDev:~# python3 test.py 
sh: 1: ifconfig: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 3, in <module>
    tun.up()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pytap2/__init__.py", line 213, in up
    raise IfconfigError()
pytap2.IfconfigError

Identical error message.

Looks like there is an issue with the lib.

I just tested with Debian on a RPI3. Same issue.

Can’t any related discussion in the forum.

Any clue from anybody ?