On Sunday 18 January 2009, Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> wrote about 'Setting up TAP interface at boot?': >Where's the right place to set up a TAP interface at boot >time? When my system's up, I usually run "tunctl -t tap0" as >root, but I'd like this to be created automatically. I do >have an entry in /etc/network/interfaces to configure this: > >auto tap0 >iface tap0 inet static > address 192.168.5.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > >but this won't work if the interface doesn't exist, so I end >up having to do everything by hand. Create and statically configure the device during the post-up of the interface it depends upon. For example, I have a OpenVPN that I want to come up on eth0. I added the line "openvpn $vpn_name" to the configuration for the eth0 device. If you are not doing openvpn, you may have to write your own script and use the normal /etc/network/if-up.d interface. If this is something to do with virtualization, so may want the device create (and configure) script attached to the "lo" device. If you are happy with having to run a command as root to create the device, you could also run "ifup tap0" immediately after that command to save a little manual work. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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