tap device at boot time

[Hajimu UMEMOTO]

Hi,

>>>>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:33:22 +0100
>>>>> Willy Offermans <Willy at Offermans.Rompen.nl> said:

Willy> Thank you for the information. So this is _not_ the way to go with
Willy> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #5. Naturally the following question
Willy> would be: how then to proceed with FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE? and most
Willy> important is cloned_interfaces="tap0" generally meant to do the things I have
Willy> asked for: initialisation and configuration of a tap device during boot.

The cloned_interfaces variable is for a cloned interface.  The tap is
not a cloned interface on 6.1-RELEASE, yet.  However, still you can
create tap0 by opening /dev/tap0.  Try putting

	cp /dev/null /dev/tap0

into your /etc/rc.early.

Sincerely,

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Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
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