From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 21 15:55:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from codine.icr.com.au (codine.icr.com.au [203.17.49.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719E737BB80 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dale@icr.com.au) Received: from icr.com.au (fantasy.icr.com.au [203.17.49.120]) by codine.icr.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA02415; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:59:28 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dale@icr.com.au) Message-ID: <39514842.4BE9F5DE@icr.com.au> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:57:06 +1000 From: Dale Walker Reply-To: dale@icr.com.au Organization: Independent Computer Retailers (ICR) Pty Ltd / ICRnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FelixC Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reboot after rc.conf change? References: <200006212134.PAA68478@mail.fpsn.net> <395136DB.1C4FF14D@icr.com.au> <001401bfdbe3$0fa08360$50efa13f@isot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FelixC wrote: > > I've added ifconfig_ed0_alias0 ...... to the rc.conf file. > then just try 'sh /etc/rc.network' to get it up.... messy but it should work OK.. The preferred option would be to add the alias on the command line (for an already running system) by: 'ifconfig ed0 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffff alias' where "inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffff" is the contents of the ifconfig_ed0_alias0 variable.. I can't recommend enough, that it is worth reading the /etc/rc.* files to follow it's steps in the bootup process.. it doesn't matter if you can't write shell scripts, at least reading it you'll become familiar with the process the machine goes through in how in deals with /etc/rc.conf,etc... good luck.. -- Dale Walker dale@icr.com.au Independent Computer Retailers (ICR) http://www.icr.com.au ICRnet http://www.icr.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message