Date: 27 Nov 2005 16:09:28 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proper way to create network devices at boot time. Message-ID: <441x11ol13.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20051127104904.1771.qmail@web51611.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051127104904.1771.qmail@web51611.mail.yahoo.com>
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> Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: Mark Jayson Alvarez writes: > > > How do you create a network device at boot time? I need to set up my carp devices at boot time. in Openbsd, it can be set in /etc/hostname.if like this. > > > > /etc/hostname.carp1 > > inet 172.16.0.100 255.255.255.0 172.16.0.255 vhid 1 carpdev em0 \ > > pass lanpasswd Thanks. > On recent FreeBSD, the devices should be created automatically if the > hardware they support is present. What device exactly are you trying > to create? Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> writes: > Im trying to create carp pseudo device. In rc.conf, I can simply configure it using ifconfig, however only after the device have been created. So manually I would say: > ifconfig carp create > ifconfig carp0 vhid 1 pass mypasswd ipaddress > > something like that... If the problem is that the devices aren't ready yet, try devfs.rules(5).
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