if_vlan subinterfaces at boot

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 17 00:31:48 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:27:47PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>> Is there any way to create, and assign addresses to a if_vlan 
>> sub-interface (eg: em6.3) via rc.conf at boot?
> 
> Sorry for the noise...
> 
> cloned_interfaces="em6.3"
> ifconfig_em6.3="inet x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x"
> 
> ...seems to be the job.

Almost.  '.' isn't a valid character in a shell variable.  We support '.' by
converting it into _ in shell variables so it should be:

cloned_interfaces="em6.3"
ifconfig_em6_3="inet x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x"

-- Brooks
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