In the new-style Gentoo /etc/conf.d/net I have 2 tap interfaces brought up using your way (tunctl), not openvpn's --mktun. These tap interfaces then must be added to 2 bridges (br0 and br1). Both are defined in conf.d/net. (tap definition goes earlier than bridge definition in the file) Note: bridges inline depend() function is empty and I have no idea what to include there, because both TAPs and bridges are brought up by the same initscript 'net', and including it there would create a circular dependency? I also can't include 'need openvpn' there to allow openvpn do the job, because it needs net as well :) So the problem is: When the bridges are created at boot time I see errors saying that TAPs don't yet exist. As the result, they don't get added to the bridges and it brakes some of my network configuration. I want an official workaround for this issue and don't like the idea of modifying any code I shouldn't modify :) So can you help me, please? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Define a bridge that uses tap interface in /etc/conf.d/net 2. Define a tap interface in /etc/conf.d/net 3. Reboot Actual Results: tap interface is created when it's too late... Expected Results: 1) Checked if the bridge has tap/tun in it 2) Or maybe you can suggest a suitable inline depend() function? Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X1 1/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X509 acl acpi alsa apache2 apm bash-completion berkdb bzip2 bzlib crypt cups curl curlwrappers dbm dvb eds emboss examples extensions fortran ftp gd gdbm gpm gstreamer iconv ipv6 libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors mailwrapper mbox md5sum memlimit mime mono mp3 mppe-mppc mysql mysqli ncurses netboot nls nntp no-htdocs no-old-linux noamazon nocardbus nomac nptl ogg pam pcntl pcre perl php pic pie posix python quotas readline samba session shared sharedmem slang snmp sockets socks5 source spell spl sse ssl symlink sysvipc tcpd threads tiff unicode usb userlocales v4l vhosts vorbis wifi zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
depend_br0() { need net.tun0 net.tun1 } Like that :) br0 is the name of the bridge tun0 and tun1 are the created tun/tap interfaces
