proper way to create network devices at boot time.

[Mark Jayson Alvarez]

Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:  Mark Jayson Alvarez  writes:

>  How do you create a network device at boot time? I need to set up my  carp devices at boot time. in Openbsd, it can be set in  /etc/hostname.if like this.
>   
> /etc/hostname.carp1
>     inet 172.16.0.100 255.255.255.0 172.16.0.255 vhid 1 carpdev em0 \
>      pass lanpasswd  Thanks.

On recent FreeBSD, the devices should be created automatically if the
hardware they support is present.  What device exactly are you trying
to create?
Im  trying to create carp pseudo device. In rc.conf, I can simply configure  it using ifconfig, however only after the device have been created. So  manually I would say:
  ifconfig carp create
  ifconfig carp0 vhid 1 pass mypasswd ipaddress
  
  something like that...


		
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