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Date:      Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:47:32 -0300
From:      Mario Lobo <mlobo@digiart.art.br>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org>
Subject:   Re: auto-addm new tap device to existing bridge ...
Message-ID:  <200811231447.32815.mlobo@digiart.art.br>
In-Reply-To: <D9723B109E8AD9B54BE43929@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <D9723B109E8AD9B54BE43929@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Sunday 23 November 2008 02:22:02 Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Is this possible?
>
> I'm using qemu, and when I start it up, it auto-create a tap device if one
> isn't available ... but, having that tap device not attached to the bridge
> that does exist doesn't help much ... if there some flag I can set, or
> sysctl value, that will have the new tap device attach itself to an
> existing bridge device?
>
> thanks ...

in /etc/rc.conf, add:

autobridge_interfaces="bridge0"   <-- whatever you called your bridge
autobridge_bridge0="tap0 tap1 [tapn..]"
cloned_interfaces="bridge0"

-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE)



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