Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:46:14 +0100 From: "Michael Ross" <michael.ross@gmx.net> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Get list of ethernet devices Message-ID: <op.v4jwfcrahalquq@michael-think>
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Moin, I'm setting up a system on an external USB drive, serving as fallback in case of a server failure: Customer takes USB drive, plugs it into any of his PCs and boots of it. Now I am looking for a good method to configure the network: I could just start dhclient on any NIC which could possibly be there, thus cramming rc.conf with ifconfig_em0="DHCP" ifconfig_em1="DHCP" ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" and so on. Or I could grep ifconfig or dmesg output for ethernet interfaces and dhclient these. Both sound like a very messy solution. So I would step beyond my current area of expertise, grep some source from sysinstall, bsdinstall or somewhere and do it in C. But I'm kind of hoping anybody can point me to a readymade solution yet unknown to me. Regards, Michael
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