From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Dec 8 03:45:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA27558 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 03:45:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA27068 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 03:39:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA00624; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 10:07:23 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA07623; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 10:07:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA22282; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 09:40:37 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512080840.JAA22282@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Another problem with sysinstall with SL/IP. To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 09:40:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512080236.VAA20113@ponds.UUCP> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Dec 7, 95 09:36:53 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > However, I just noticed in the sysinstall generated /etc/sysconfig, > it produced: > > network_interfaces="cuaa0 lo0" > ifconfig_cuaa0="inet ..." > > > which, of course, doesn't work - these should be: > > network_interfaces="sl0 lo0" > ifconfig_slo="inet ..." No, it must be network_interfaces="lo0" sl0 cannot be initialized at boot time, since the initialization can only be done after slattach has turned the port into something that can speak IP. This case is not handled by the current /etc/rc and /etc/sysconfig scheme (and i doubt somebody could come up with a true generic method to do it). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)