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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c 
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:>     Do people have any objections to running ifconfig and route inside
:>     /etc/rc.conf to 'calculate' a machine-specific rc.conf.local path ?
:
:I do - I like the fact that rc.conf is a "passive" mechanism and can
:be included multiple times (or trivially overridden in rc.conf.local)
:since it only defines variables and has no other "side effects."
:
:- Jordan

    What if we added a sysctl variable to the diskless subsection to make 
    the IP address more readily accessible.  Then rc.conf would only have to
    run a sysctl ( which should be acceptable ).  That would avoid having
    to run route and ifconfig.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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