Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:35:02 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: conf/46746: No way to set link addresses through rc.conf Message-ID: <20030104073502.8D673A818@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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>Number: 46746
>Category: conf
>Synopsis: No way to set link addresses through rc.conf
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 03 23:40:01 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Andrew
>Release: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
UgH!
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD starbug.ugh.net.au 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #9: Sun Oct 27 22:46:03 EST 2002 andrew@starbug.ugh.net.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STARBUG i386
>Description:
There is no easy way to set both the link and inet addresses of an interface.
There seems to be special support for ipx already - I have just extended this
to all address families (and removed the specific ipx support).
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
/etc/defaults/rc.conf:
--- rc.conf.orig Sat Jan 4 13:09:24 2003
+++ rc.conf Sat Jan 4 13:37:17 2003
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
network_interfaces="auto" # List of network interfaces (or "auto").
cloned_interfaces="" # List of cloned network interfaces to create.
#cloned_interfaces="gif0 gif1 gif2 gif3" # Pre-cloning GENERIC config.
+network_families="inet inet6 atalk ipx link"
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration.
#ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.254 netmask 0xffffffff" # Sample alias entry.
#ifconfig_ed0_ipx="ipx 0x00010010" # Sample IPX address family entry.
/etc/rc.network:
--- rc.network.orig Sat Jan 4 13:03:32 2003
+++ rc.network Sat Jan 4 18:45:58 2003
@@ -221,6 +221,17 @@
${dhcp_program:-/sbin/dhclient} ${dhcp_flags} ${dhcp_interfaces}
fi
+ # configure interfaces for other address families
+ for family in ${network_families}; do
+ for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
+ eval ifconfig_args=\$ifconfig_${ifn}_${family}
+ if [ -n "${ifconfig_args}" ]; then
+ ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args}
+ eval showstat_$ifn=1
+ fi
+ done
+ done
+
for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
# Check to see if aliases need to be added
#
@@ -235,14 +246,6 @@
break;
fi
done
-
- # Do ipx address if specified
- #
- eval ifconfig_args=\$ifconfig_${ifn}_ipx
- if [ -n "${ifconfig_args}" ]; then
- ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args}
- eval showstat_$ifn=1
- fi
done
for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
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