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Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:49:19 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, thompsa@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: autobridge patch
Message-ID:  <20060117174919.GC21625@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060117093203.1fb41851.lists@yazzy.org>
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:32:03AM +0100, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:03:33 -0800
> Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
>=20
> > 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@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >=20
> > > > Hi,
> > > >=20
> > > >=20
> > > > 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.
> > > >=20
> > > > 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=3D"".
> > > >=20
> > > > Please test this patch, even if you dont use a bridge. Im not in
> > > > a hurry to commit it.
> > >=20
> > > 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?
> > >=20
> > > cloned_interfaces=3D"bridge0 vlan0"
> > > ifconfig_sk0=3D"up"
> > > ifconfig_vlan0=3D"name VLAN01 inet 10.137.99.4 vlan 1 vlandev sk0"
> >=20
> > If you want to rename the vlan interface use:
> >=20
> > ifconfig_vlan0_name=3D"name VLAN01"
> > ifconfig_VLAN01=3D"inet 10.137.99.4 vlan 1 vlandev sk0"
>=20
> Actually only this will work:
> ifconfig_vlan0_name=3D"VLAN01"
> ifconfig_VLAN01=3D"inet 10.137.99.4 vlan 1 vlandev sk0"
>=20
> One thing I noticed was VLAN01 could not be called something more
> descriptive like VLAN-FOO since then the startup scripts went bananas
> leaving my console in an ifconfig loop.

I know about that problem and plan to fix it (by collapsing the
namespace so that all unsupported characters are treated as though they
are _'s in the rc.conf scripts).  It's not super high on my current
list though so if someone else wasn't to do it, that would be great.

> There was a patch from bart <bart@convex.ru> that he posted to
> net@ adding possibility to add an ASCII description to devices the same
> way Cisco does.=20
> Was it ever conserned as a commit candidate?

I plan to commit a revised version at some point, but first I want to
commit the ioctl changes I proposed a few days ago so we don't end up
with an implicit size encoded in the ioctl interface.

-- Brooks

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