Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
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.
Thanks.
Jesse Sheidlower
To bring up a TAP interface, optionally readable by a non-root user, do:
iface mytap inet static
address 10.0.3.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up /usr/sbin/tunctl -u username -t mytap