Subject: Re: configuring clone interfaces before bridge at boot-time?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/08/2006 20:19:57
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 01:57:03 +0200 (CEST), Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
wrote:

> 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

That's a good idea for now, and I'll install that for now.  But I wonder
if that's the right general solution.
> 
> ... or for the real overkill, add PROVIDE & REQUIRE keywords & pass the 
> whole thing to rcorder(8). 8-)
> 
I'm glad there was a smiley after that one... 


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb