From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 11:35:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31AC16A420 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:35:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wigry@uninet.ee) Received: from mail.neti.ee (smtp-out-1.neti.ee [194.126.101.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C77443D4C for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:35:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wigry@uninet.ee) Message-ID: <43159779.30509@uninet.ee> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:41:45 +0300 From: Rein Kadastik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050831090245.GA3534@aurora.oekb.co.at> <20050831103632.GC47091@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20050831103632.GC47091@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee Subject: Re: rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:35:48 -0000 Excuse me for a silly question, but what the hell is UP? I know, what is IP, I know how ifconfig works, but wtf is UP? Rein Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2005-08-31 11:02, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > >>I'm looking for a way to set an interface UP using /etc/rc.conf >>without giving the interface an IP-address (i.e. neither static nor >>DHCP) >> >>Background: The machine in question has three Ethernet-IFs - one >>connects to the LAN (and has an IP-address) the other two are used for >>monitoring traffic via ethereal only. For security reasons I don't >>want to assign IP-addresses to the two "ethereal-only" interfaces - >>but I need them "UP". >> >>Sure enough I can "up" these interfaces manually but I want them up at >>boot-time. >> >>I've tried with entries like e.g. >> >>ifconfig_fxp1="" >>ifconfig_fxp1="UP" >> >>in my /etc/rc.conf - none of these work. >> >> > >Try "up" (lowercase) instead. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >__________ NOD32 1.1205 (20050830) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >http://www.eset.com > > > > >