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From: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
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Subject: /etc/rc.network problems/questions
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in /etc/rc.network we have these lines:

for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
	if [ -e /etc/start_if.${ifn} ]; then
		. /etc/start_if.${ifn} ${ifn}
	fi

but to my best knowlege, the "." builtin doesn't take parameters.

Why am I missing?

if I create a start_if.fxp0 file, for example, that looks like this:

ifconfig $1 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias

the $1 expands to nothing.

What am I missing?  Is everybody else hardcoding the interface name into
start_if.ifn?

Thanks!

Tim

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