Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:15:32 -0600 From: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.network problems/questions Message-ID: <19980219211532.58645@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219154021.658U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 03:40:33PM -0800 References: <19980219043436.31978@futuresouth.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219154021.658U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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?
>
> ifconfig lines tend to be system-specific, so why would you bother?
Well, for one thing it's wrong. Aren't FreeBSD folks the ones who
nitpicks on every detail??!! :-)
Mostly I bothered because it was there. Also, it'd be a tad easier if
I change the ethernet interface (most of our machines have a fxp0 and
then an ed0 interface as backup).
Tim
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