From 61d17c579434ed6bfc85b62b9cae5e75ba151acb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: markus <>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:28:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add support for ifconfig clone; from netbsd; ok deraadt,
 henning

---
 src/etc/netstart | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/etc/netstart b/src/etc/netstart
index 8780589b..c1a6c2ae 100644
--- a/src/etc/netstart
+++ b/src/etc/netstart
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh -
 #
-#	$OpenBSD: netstart,v 1.88 2003/10/20 17:53:32 david Exp $
+#	$OpenBSD: netstart,v 1.89 2003/12/03 13:28:36 markus Exp $
 
 # Returns true if $1 contains only alphanumerics
 isalphanumeric() {
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ ifstart() {
 
 	ifconfig $if > /dev/null 2>&1
 	if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
-		return
+		# Try to create interface if it does not exist
+		ifconfig $if create > /dev/null 2>&1
+		if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
+			return
+		fi
 	fi
 
 	# Now parse the hostname.* file