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Date:      Fri, 08 Dec 1995 15:56:31 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Cc:        time.cdrom.com!jkh@dg-rtp.dg.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Another problem with sysinstall with SL/IP. 
Message-ID:  <199512082356.PAA04645@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 1995 13:00:23 EST." <199512081800.NAA11824@lakes> 

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>> > 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
>> 
>> True enough, though it's still a bug. :-)
>
> Well, the values I had before (network_interfaces="sl0 lo0")
>worked great in 2.0.5.  
>
> The behaviour it has was to go ahead and assign the proper IP
>addresses to sl0.
>
> Of course, the network was unavailable until the slattach was
>performed, but I did that when I wanted to connect to my ISP.
>
>	- Dave Rivers -

This still seems to work for me on my 2.2-Box.  When did the behavior
change?

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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