[gentoo-user] Re: Networking broke after update: We only hotplug for ethernet interfaces

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2008-10-14, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 15:28:20 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> My last "emerge -auvND world" appears to have broken the
>> networking setup on my machine.
>>
>> I use tun/tap networking in order to allow Qemu virtual
>> machines to show up on the network, so my /etc/conf.d/net looks
>> like this:
>>
>>    bridge_br0="eth0"
>>
>>    config_br0=( "dhcp" )
>>    dhcpcd_br0=( "-L" )
>>    config_eth0=( "null" )
>>
>>    # To be able to access internet on current machine
>>    depend_br0() {
>>     need net.eth0
>>     }
>>
>> That has worked fine for ages, but now when my system starts up
>> it says:
>>
>>   rc.scripts: rc-scripts: We only hotplug for ethernet interfaces.
>>
>> And then the br0 interface is disabled (leaving the machine
>> disconnected from the network).
>>
>> Is hotplug now broken so that it can't be used the way it used
>> to?
>
> from 'cat /etc/rc.conf'
>
> # Some people want a finer grain over hotplug/coldplug. rc_plug_services is a
> # list of services that are matched in order, either allowing or not. By
> # default we allow services through as rc_coldplug/rc_hotplug has to be YES
> # anyway.
> # Example - rc_plug_services="net.wlan !net.*"
> # This allows net.wlan and any service not matching net.* to be plugged.
> rc_plug_services=""

1) None of that text appears in my /etc/rc.conf

2) I don't understand how the above applies.

3) Has that changed recently thus breaking support for bridge
   interfaces?

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