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Subject: Re: proper way to create network devices at boot time.
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Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> writes:

>  How do you create a network device at boot time? I need to set up my carp devices at boot time. in Openbsd, it can be set in /etc/hostname.if like this.
>   
> /etc/hostname.carp1
>     inet 172.16.0.100 255.255.255.0 172.16.0.255 vhid 1 carpdev em0 \
>      pass lanpasswd  Thanks.

On recent FreeBSD, the devices should be created automatically if the
hardware they support is present.  What device exactly are you trying
to create?