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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2002 17:56:55 -0400
From:      Scott Ullrich <sullrich@CRE8.COM>
To:        "'aw1@stade.co.uk'" <aw1@stade.co.uk>, chris scott <c.scott@uk.tiscali.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels
Message-ID:  <2F6DCE1EFAB3BC418B5C324F13934C9601D23851@exchange.corp.cre8.com>

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FWIW,

I just ran into this issue as well.  Not really sure what is causing it just
yet.

The workaround is to manually ifconfig from /etc/rc.local (crude hack).

Thanks,

-Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Wontroba [mailto:aw1@stade.co.uk] 
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:28 PM
To: chris scott
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels


[cc: cut back to -stable]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:36:16PM +0100, chris scott wrote:
> I've just cvsed up and made world to freebsd 4.7 stable, without a 
> hitch. However when I rebooted my machine the vpn tunnel which it was 
> running wouldnt come back up. After a while of checking configs and 
> poking around I found it was because the gif interfaces were 
> cinfigured and not up. A simple ifconfig gif0 up fixed this. I have 
> never had to do this before as when I have created gif interfaces the 
> device was automatically up, this doesnt seem to be the case anymore. 
> Is this a new feature or a bug?

Did you run mergemaster or otherwise get /etc/rc.network up to date before
rebooting?

-- 
Adrian Wontroba

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