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Subject: Re: Another problem with sysinstall with SL/IP. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 1995 13:00:23 EST."
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 15:56:31 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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?

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Justin T. Gibbs
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