autobridge patch

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:25:04AM +0000, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:16:05 +1300
> Andrew Thompson <thompsa at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > I have a patch here that adds the ability to automatically add an interface to a
> > bridge when its attached. This is aimed towards apps like qemu or vmware that
> > open a tap interface and need it bridged with the network adapter, the user can
> > set up a glob for interfaces to be automatically added (eg tap*). It may
> > also be useful for Xen dom0 support.
> > 
> > This patch includes a big change to how interfaces are configured in
> > userland. Before only physical Ethernet cards were handled by devd,
> > now _ALL_ interfaces are (vlans, pflog, pfsync, tap, tun, etc..). This
> > has the added bonus that the pseudo interfaces can be configured after
> > boottime in rc.conf, ifconfig_xxx="".
> > 
> > Please test this patch, even if you dont use a bridge. Im not in a hurry
> > to commit it.
> 
> I just rebuild and installed my world and kernel to test the patches.
> Seems like things did not work as expected.
> The name part of ifconfig_vlan0 left me with renamed but not configured device.
> The IP etc of VLAN01 was not set at boot. Am I doning something wrong?
> 
> cloned_interfaces="bridge0 vlan0"
> ifconfig_sk0="up"
> ifconfig_vlan0="name VLAN01 inet 10.137.99.4 vlan 1 vlandev sk0"

If you want to rename the vlan interface use:

ifconfig_vlan0_name="name VLAN01"
ifconfig_VLAN01="inet 10.137.99.4 vlan 1 vlandev sk0"

not that this has anything to do with the Andrew's bridging script.

-- Brooks

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