> BTW, I know this has worked this way since Solaris 8 and works this way
> to this day, but looking at net-physical, I cannot see how this works at
> all! There's code in net-init that plumbs IP tunnel interfaces, but
> there's no code that I can see in net-physical that prevents them from
> being plumbed there... I must be missing something (perhaps shell
> scripting magic that escapes me.)
The extra `.' in ip.tun causes the IFS logic to basically mis-parse the
tunnel name and skip them -- you end up at the arrowed line below:
set -- $interface_names
IFS="$ORIGIFS"
while [ $# -ge 2 ]; do
shift
if [ "$1" = "xx0" ]; then
#
# For some unknown historical reason the xx0
# ifname is ignored.
#
shift
continue
fi
--> if [ $# -gt 1 -a "$2" != "/etc/hostname" ]; then
while [ $# -gt 1 -a "$1" != "/etc/hostname" ]; do
shift
done
else
inet_list="$inet_list $1"
shift
fi
done
--
meem
