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On 12/26/2011 22:31, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> The only misgiving that I have about this is that it deletes the
> default route

Um, I'm not sure how it would do that. Can you fill me in?

> and might cause issues with firewalls, natd, more
> complicated interface types like laggs, vlans, etc.

We would need a bit of educational material to let people know that
what's in rc.conf will go live when they type 'ifconfig up,' sure. I
would imagine that most folks would view that as a feature.  :)


Doug

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