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Bug 453973

Summary: add tap device support to RHEL5's ifup-eth script
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Scott Zahn <scott>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: initscripts Maintenance Team <initscripts-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.2CC: notting, opensource
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patch to support tap device creation on boot none

Description Scott Zahn 2008-07-03 15:52:54 UTC 
I've simply added support for tap interfaces to be created on boot through the
ifup-eth script.  I did create one new config variable, a tap device owner can
be specified through the OWNER variable in ifcfg-tapX sysconfig files. 
Depending on how similar the ifup-eth scripts are between Fedora and Redhat,
this patch could be applied to Fedora as well.
Comment 1 Scott Zahn 2008-07-03 15:52:54 UTC 
Created attachment 310936 [details]
patch to support tap device creation on boot
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2008-07-03 18:38:27 UTC 
*** Bug 228203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2009-03-19 21:09:25 UTC 
I've committed a slightly modified version to the upstream initscripts repository; it will be in RHEL 6.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=242e38c178b6509496452d4a9d9e01024a415e64

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