I play around with long names for tap devices and bridges my /etc/conf.d/net: ------------- config_tap_gate2br_filer=( "null" ) tuntap_tap_gate2br_filer="tap" tunctl_tap_gate2br_filer="-u nobody -g kvm" config_tap_filer2br_filer=( "null" ) tuntap_tap_filer2br_filer="tap" tunctl_tap_filer2br_filer="-u nobody -g kvm" brctl_br_filer=( "setfd 0" "stp off" ) bridge_br_filer="tap_gate2br_filer tap_filer2br_filer" config_br_filer=( "null" ) depend_br_filer() { need net.tap_gate2br_filer net.tap_filer2br_filer } ------------- start the tap-devices works fine, but adding them to bridge fails. ------------- localhost init.d # /etc/init.d/net.tap_filer2br_filer start * Starting tap_filer2br_filer * Creating Tun/Tap interface tap_filer2br_filer ... [ ok ] * Bringing up tap_filer2br_filer [ ok ] localhost init.d # /etc/init.d/net.tap_gate2br_filer start * Starting tap_gate2br_filer * Creating Tun/Tap interface tap_gate2br_filer ... [ ok ] * Bringing up tap_gate2br_filer [ ok ] localhost init.d # /etc/init.d/net.br_filer start * Starting br_filer * Destroying bridge br_filer ... [ ok ] * Creating bridge br_filer ... [ ok ] * Adding ports to br_filer * network interface tap_gate2br_filer does not exist * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) [ !! ] ------------- I test if it exists, it do (but the device name is cut) ------------- localhost init.d # ifconfig tap_gate2br_filer tap_gate2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 86:76:d1:e4:21:a1 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) ------------- adding tap_gate2br_filer to br_filer with brctl by hand works fine localhost init.d # brctl addif br_filer tap_filer2br_filer Probably net.lo does not check long device names correct? -------------- Portage 2.1.8.3 (hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_930_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri gdbm gpm hardened iconv idn justify mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pic pppd python readline session sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode urandom xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware voodoo" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
additional information After I rename the devices to shorter names, all works fine. Long names are the problem. -------------- localhost init.d # /etc/init.d/net.tg2f start * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting tg2f * Creating Tun/Tap interface tg2f ... [ ok ] * Bringing up tg2f [ ok ] localhost init.d # /etc/init.d/net.tf2bf start * Starting tf2bf * Creating Tun/Tap interface tf2bf ... [ ok ] * Bringing up tf2bf [ ok ] localhost init.d # /etc/init.d/net.br_filer start * Starting br_filer * Destroying bridge br_filer ... [ ok ] * Creating bridge br_filer ... [ ok ] * Adding ports to br_filer * tg2f ... [ ok ] * tf2bf ... [ ok ] * Bringing up br_filer [ ok ] --------------
pretty sure it's already fixed in openrc
