Re: updating "self" in RELENG_13

From: Oleksandr Kryvulia <shuriku_at_shurik.kiev.ua>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:08:47 UTC
19.07.22 23:02, mike tancsa пише:
> I have an endpoint where interfaces come and go or change IP addresses 
> due to dynamic IPs being handed out.  One thing I noticed is that if I 
> want to make use of the "self" keyword, the automatic table that it 
> abstracts away does not get automatically updated with new IP 
> addresses.  If I manually do a pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf, it fixes the 
> issue.  So to automate it, I looked at devd to create
>
> % cat /etc/devd/interface.conf
> notify 0 {
>     match "system"        "IFNET";
>     match "type"          "(LINK_DOWN|LINK_UP)";
>     action "/usr/local/bin/interface-change.sh $subsystem $interface";
> };
>
> and in the script I call /sbin/pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf
>
> But the next issue I ran into is the interface often comes up before 
> its given an IP. So to make it work I had to add a
>
> sleep 5 ; /sbin/pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf &
>
> Not really happy with this method as sleeps are a bit hackish and 
> probably wont reliably work.  Anyone else run into this issue and how 
> do you work around it ? Or am I approaching it the wrong way ?
>
> I also noticed that if I do something like
>
>  ifconfig lo0 192.168.99.2/32 alias
>
> devd does not fire
>
>     ---Mike
>

Hi, using interface groups instead makes sense for you?