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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To: sergio lenzi <lenzi@k1.com.br>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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--On Friday, April 18, 2008 10:06:42 -0300 sergio lenzi <lenzi@k1.com.br> wrote:

> Hello...
>
> I had another NIC from marvell (I did not remember if it was a nve or nfe)
> that refuses to work until I put the word "UP"  in the ifconfig command
>
> in /etc/rc.conf.....
>
> ifconfig_xx0="up DHCP"
>
> ==================================================
> may be is it not the case????

If you want your NIC to come up on boot, you need to tell the OS that.

# grep ifconfig /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"

For yours:
ifconfig_xx0="DHCP" should work fine.

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/