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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:54:52 +0930
From:      Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, j balan <jbalan@proscouting.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network Startup
Message-ID:  <20011017085452.A16064@plug.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20011016124220.A727@straylight.oblivion.bg>; from roam@ringlet.net on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:42:20PM %2B0300
References:  <200110152116.f9FLGsL51934@proscouting.com> <20011015162221.B8674@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016100105.D12238@plug.cx> <20011015212017.B73961@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016140837.C12702@plug.cx> <20011016124220.A727@straylight.oblivion.bg>

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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:42:20PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> > > ifconfig xxx inet 1.2.3.4 alias
> > 
> > Oh, for sure. That's what I, and the majority of the community, do
> > now. I think that it's not particularly convenient if you want to
> > restart the network if you've got 3 or 4 network interfaces.
> 
> Are you aware of the existence of /etc/netstart?  I wasn't, until
> very recently :)

Looking at /etc/netstart, it just seems to be a wrapper to
network_pass1(). What it doesn't cater for is shutting down all or
individual interfaces via a common, slightly simpler interface;
restarting one or all interfaces via said interface.

/etc/netstart doesn't seem to be much use other than at boot time.

   - andrew

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