Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:01:29 -0400 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: recent CURRENT seems to affect if_tap, if_bridge with qemu Message-ID: <20070410100129.GA45716@mail.scottro.net> In-Reply-To: <461B2006.9090508@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070409132718.GA28377@uws1.starlofashions.com> <20070410010402.GB54131@uws1.starlofashions.com> <461B2006.9090508@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:26:30AM +0100, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> >To follow up, the problem seems to be solved. In private email, someone
> >suggested to me that I ensure that both bridge0 and tap0 were up. Prior
> >to my latest update of CURRENT, my /etc/qemu-ifup script just had
> >/sbin/ifconfig ${1}
> >
> >Changing it to
> >/sbin/ifconfig ${1} up
> >
> >fixed the problem.
>
> There is a net.link.tap.up_on_open sysctl which may help; it will mark a tap
> instance as IFF_UP immediately on devfs open or ifconfig clone.
>
Thank you, I didn't know about that one. Until the email yesterday
(from Tobias Grosser--I wasn't sure, when I posted the solution, if it
Your solution works too. The issue was simply that if_tap no longer
comes up upon being created.
Thanks to both you and Tobias.
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