Do you use a value other than AUTO for network_interfaces?

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Wed Jun 3 20:05:10 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:18:01PM +0200, Angelo Turetta wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> If you use a value of network_interfaces other than AUTO please speak
>> up so that we can make an intelligent decision about this issue.
> 
> Maybe I am wrong, setting network_interfaces is the way I found I had to 
> use to be able to rename cloned interfaces.
> 
> eg:
> 
> network_interfaces="lo0 em0 dmz"
> ifconfig_em0="up"
> cloned_interfaces="vlan0"
> 
> ifconfig_vlan0_name="dmz"
> ifconfig_dmz="192.168.34.129/24 vlan 2 vlandev em0"
> 
> I seem to remember I had to put that 'dmz' in network_interfaces, to make 
> everything happy at boot. I can do more tests if needed.

Hmm, there might be a bug related to cloned interfaces and renaming.
That should be easy to fix.

-- Brooks
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