Re: Choosing ordering of pseudo-interface config

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:49:50PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> [...]
> It turns out there's a simple mod hat can me made to rc.d/network
> that allows people to configure the order, which is ...
> 
> --- network.orig      2013-12-10 08:33:37.000000000 +0700
> +++ network   2013-12-10 08:36:49.000000000 +0700
> @@ -205,12 +205,16 @@
>               ifaces="$(/sbin/ifconfig -l)"
>               if checkyesno auto_ifconfig; then
>                       tmp="$ifaces"
> +                     cftmp=
>                       for cloner in $(/sbin/ifconfig -C); do
>                               for int in /etc/ifconfig.${cloner}[0-9]*; do
>                                       [ ! -f $int ] && break
> -                                     tmp="$tmp ${int##*.}"
> +                                     cftmp="$cftmp ${int}"
>                               done
>                       done
> +                     for int in $(/sbin/rcorder $cftmp); do
> +                             tmp="$tmp ${int#*.}"
> +                     done
>               else
>                       tmp="$net_interfaces"
>               fi
> 
> That just runs rcorder on the /etc/ifconfig.* files for all the
> cloning interfaces.   To that just add
> 
>       # PROVIDE: vlan0
> and
>       # REQUIRE: vlan0
> 
> in appropriate places in the ifconfig.vlan0 and ifconfig.bridge1 (in my
> case) files, and the order then becomes something that will work for me.

I like the idea ! I have the same issue on various systems, which I
solve using auto_ifconfig=NO and net_interfaces="...".

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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