Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:25:04 +0000 From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: autobridge patch Message-ID: <20060116112504.63ba886b.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <20060116091605.GB18530@heff.fud.org.nz> References: <20060116091605.GB18530@heff.fud.org.nz>
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:16:05 +1300 Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a patch here that adds the ability to automatically add an interface to a > bridge when its attached. This is aimed towards apps like qemu or vmware that > open a tap interface and need it bridged with the network adapter, the user can > set up a glob for interfaces to be automatically added (eg tap*). It may > also be useful for Xen dom0 support. > > This patch includes a big change to how interfaces are configured in > userland. Before only physical Ethernet cards were handled by devd, > now _ALL_ interfaces are (vlans, pflog, pfsync, tap, tun, etc..). This > has the added bonus that the pseudo interfaces can be configured after > boottime in rc.conf, ifconfig_xxx="". > > Please test this patch, even if you dont use a bridge. Im not in a hurry > to commit it. I just rebuild and installed my world and kernel to test the patches. Seems like things did not work as expected. The name part of ifconfig_vlan0 left me with renamed but not configured device. The IP etc of VLAN01 was not set at boot. Am I doning something wrong? cloned_interfaces="bridge0 vlan0" ifconfig_sk0="up" ifconfig_vlan0="name VLAN01 inet 10.137.99.4 vlan 1 vlandev sk0" Cheers, Marcin.
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