Subject: Re: configuring clone interfaces before bridge at boot-time?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/09/2006 01:57:03 
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> as part of a bridge.  Current, my ifconfig_tap0 file says
>
> 	create
> 	192.168.42.1
...
> so tap0 isn't created by the time ifconfig_bridge1 -- which has
>
> 	create
> 	!brconfig $int add tap0 up
> Comments?

Just an idea:

ifconfig_bridge0:
 	create

ifconfig_tap0:
 	create
 	192.168.42.1
 	!brconfig bridge0 add $int up

... or for the real overkill, add PROVIDE & REQUIRE keywords & pass the 
whole thing to rcorder(8). 8-)


  - Hubert