Re: recent CURRENT seems to affect if_tap, if_bridge with qemu

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:26:30AM +0100, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> >To follow up, the problem seems to be solved.  In private email, someone
> >suggested to me that I ensure that both bridge0 and tap0 were up.  Prior
> >to my latest update of CURRENT, my /etc/qemu-ifup script just had 
> >/sbin/ifconfig ${1}
> >
> >Changing it to 
> >/sbin/ifconfig ${1} up
> >
> >fixed the problem.   
> 
> There is a net.link.tap.up_on_open sysctl which may help; it will mark a tap 
> instance as IFF_UP immediately on devfs open or ifconfig clone.
> 

Thank you, I didn't know about that one.  Until the email yesterday
(from Tobias Grosser--I wasn't sure, when I posted the solution, if it

Your solution works too.  The issue was simply that if_tap no longer
comes up upon being created. 

Thanks to both you and Tobias.



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