Re: vether vs. tap, initialization order, etc

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 07:57:30AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 24, 2021, at 5:42 AM, nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder if there's an initialization order difference
> > somewhere.
> 
> If you want to have control over the initialization order, you need to set auto_ifconfig=NO.  On one of my systems that has a bunch of Qemu VMs:
> 
> auto_ifconfig=NO
> net_interfaces="tap0 tap1 tap2 tap3 tap4 tap5 tap6 tap7 tap8 tap9 tap10 tap11 bridge0”
> 
> …otherwise I was having the problem of bridge0 being brought up before the tap devices were created.
> 
> -- thorpej
> 

Thank you! This works great, I'll make note of it in the NetBSD Guide's section
on networking.