From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 13:38:09 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 E9AFE16A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:38:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from ash25e.internode.on.net (ash25e.internode.on.net [203.16.214.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435E043D46 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:38:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp222-74.lns3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.222.74]) by ash25e.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j7BDbk8s069686; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:07:47 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) From: Malcolm Kay Organization: at home To: Matthew Seaman , Sean Murphy Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:07:45 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <000501c59e02$6ceece00$0200a8c0@satellite> <42FA9CDA.1080504@calarts.edu> <20050811101713.GB19829@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> In-Reply-To: <20050811101713.GB19829@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508112307.45642.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: dave , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two dc cards on 5.4 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: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:38:10 -0000 On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:47 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:33:30PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: > > Sean Murphy wrote: > > >dave wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >> Thanks for your reply. I'll give that a shot. My > > >> problem is the dc0 card > > >>gets it's ip via dhcp, can i still use media and mediaopt > > >> with dhcp? Thanks. > > >>Dave. > > >> > > >>_______________________________________________ > > >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question > > >>s To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > >try this in your rc.conf > > > > > >ifconfig_dc0="DHCP" > > >ifconfig_dc0="100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" > > > > > >ifconfig_dc1="DHCP" > > >ifconfig_dc1="100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" > > > > *Correction* > > > > ifconfig_dc0="DHCP" > > ifconfig_dc0="media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" > > > > ifconfig_dc1="DHCP" > > ifconfig_dc1="media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" > > Unfortunately, that won't work. /etc/rc.conf is part of a > shell script, and all of those variable=value lines within it > are literally assignments to shell variables. Thus all you're > doing with those lines is setting 'ifconfig_dcX' to the value > "DHCP" and then immediately resetting it to the value "media > 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex". > > On recent FreeBSD 6.x you can just combine the lines: > > ifconfig_dc0="DHCP media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" > > (I can't remember if that also works on 5.x -- you'll need to > read /etc/network.subr to find out). It would seem that the "DHCP" value causes a call to 'dhclient' rather than 'ifconfig' and dhclient.conf(5) suggests that this is where the options for a DHCP interface should reside. Malcolm Kay > > In any case, and certainly for older FreeBSD versions you can > always create a /etc/start_if.dc0 script, which will be run > immediately before the ifconfig(8) command generated out of > /etc/rc.conf. In your case, the script should look like: > > #!/bin/sh > > ifconfig dc0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex > > but you can put any arbitrary commands in there that you want. > Ditto for the dc1 interface, except call the script > /etc/start_if.dc1 (if that isn't bleedingly obvious...) There > are corresponding /etc/stop_if.XXN scripts that can be created > to do arbitrary stuff on interface shutdown as well. > > Cheers, > > Matthew