From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 15:59:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (kypo.alfred.cx [150.101.93.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0AA37B40B; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.plug.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 20DF82B8BF; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:54:53 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:54:52 +0930 From: Andrew Reid To: Peter Pentchev Cc: Andrew Reid , Dan Nelson , j balan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Startup Message-ID: <20011017085452.A16064@plug.cx> References: <200110152116.f9FLGsL51934@proscouting.com> <20011015162221.B8674@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016100105.D12238@plug.cx> <20011015212017.B73961@dan.emsphone.com> <20011016140837.C12702@plug.cx> <20011016124220.A727@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011016124220.A727@straylight.oblivion.bg>; from roam@ringlet.net on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:42:20PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:42:20PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > ifconfig xxx inet 1.2.3.4 alias > > > > Oh, for sure. That's what I, and the majority of the community, do > > now. I think that it's not particularly convenient if you want to > > restart the network if you've got 3 or 4 network interfaces. > > Are you aware of the existence of /etc/netstart? I wasn't, until > very recently :) Looking at /etc/netstart, it just seems to be a wrapper to network_pass1(). What it doesn't cater for is shutting down all or individual interfaces via a common, slightly simpler interface; restarting one or all interfaces via said interface. /etc/netstart doesn't seem to be much use other than at boot time. - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message